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When you stop the noise of a relationship, you're left with what it's like to be with yourself. The range of emotions is wider. There's not someone there to go to or to look out for.
I was angry with him at the time, because he breezed in, directed two shows and then just left us on our own. I felt let down.
Dune was the most amazing experience. It was my first film. We shot in Mexico City. I was away from everything I knew for seven months
I've heard or seen rumours written about someone I've been dating, gossip that they're having an affair or whatever, and I'll just call them up and say, What's going on?
My mother was a wonderful pianist. We all took piano lessons when we were young. But I've never composed anything.
I want to get beyond the courtesy stage. My father and I have a ritual: Whenever I go home, we play golf together.
I think children are much more aware of what goes on around them much earlier than we give them credit for.
You have to ask yourself, How can that work? I get obsessed with these details.
Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing.
The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs.
We had a ping-pong table in rehearsals, which was a really good way to clear our minds.
It did happen quickly, but we didn't get together on the first night. We got together on the second.
I love coffee. I have a wonderful big coffee machine. It's a full-on industrial model. I have a cappuccino in the morning and a little espresso in the afternoon.
It's great to be able to look at someone and say, God, I really want you, anywhere, anytime. To have that come back to you, with such passion.
I can either chafe at it or give in and enjoy it. I chose to enjoy it, I think.
I've been able to fly under the radar of the press for the most part.
I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me.
Apparently, when Twin Peaks was on the air in Spain, something like 50 percent of televisions were tuned to it.
People seemed to suddenly like me because I was the lead in the play.
It feels great to be grey. It feels more grown-up.
I'm friends with Francesca Annis and Patrick Stewart to this day.
Showgirls was different from anything I had done before. I didn't set out to make a camp classic, but that's what happened.
It's worth the effort for me not to accept less.
David loved the investigative element of that show. He thought it was much more interesting to investigate than to solve the mystery. David was surprised when he found that people did care.
I'd spend all day thinking of ways to change it. It was Hey, let's completely redecorate all the bedrooms.
It's good Celtic hair, I suppose. But it's almost all gone now for the play. I've cut it really short and it has a lot of grey in it now. I normally dye it for work.
My workout is my meditation.
I had never traveled before. When we were kids my father would be, like,'What's the point? We're happy here. Let's just stay at home.
I can't get a job, I can't get arrested.
I had a ball with Linda, but then I met the love of my life.
I do get a lot of comments walking down the street. New Yorkers are very vocal.
I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States.
I really fight for my privacy.
We started rehearsals at the Royal Opera House. I hadn't ever done a two-person play before. Woody agrees that it's probably the most demanding production that we've both done.
We only get Mondays off, and I've been trying to play as much golf as possible.
It's a pleasure to work with four very talented women.
I don't think the women in the TV series are really like that. It's certainly not my personal experience of New York women.
One corridor is pretty much like another.
I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school.
The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?
Working for 90 minutes without a cut or a break in front of the camera was challenging, to say the least.
It's the best time to be in London. The chance to be outside in the evening is so special-it doesn't happen very often.
I've got obsessed with the gym. I go every day. I can't stop thinking about working out. God, that's worrying.
At some point in a person's life, you have to reconcile the surface stuff and the stuff in the caves. I've started wanting to explore what's in there.
Doing a film, or being sent scripts to look at a certain character, it's very odd for me. I tend to take it very personally.
I still have a fondness for velour.
There is no one in particular that I follow. I like Harrison Ford.
Twenty years is a long time.
Dune had too many expectations riding on it at the time.
David intended to keep the investigation of Laura's murder going on for the length of the series. There was such an outcry to resolve it.
Helmut Lang does a lot of very military-influenced things. You have to find the designer that suits your body the best, and he works for me.
I met him and it clicked. David saw my darker underbelly and he used that. He got me and I got him. It was very special.
I had no control over my film career, so I became very controlling over my house. It was asphyxiating.
We had this thing called the Cotillion, which was a source of anxiety for me because I was shy and you were forced to ask girls to dance.
There are three boys in the family; I'm the eldest.
It was like a party. I got to submerge myself in the world of fashion. I became a bit of a clothes horse. Linda opened up the world to me.
For most of my career, it has been quite a struggle to find roles-that's one of the reasons they've been so eclectic.
Hamlet is a little daunting.
These early '30s are really confusing me. I was bopping along and I knew I was a good actor. Everything was OK. But recently I'm shaking up my world a little bit.
I became friends with two very funny men, Steven Webber, and Julian Sands. Working with Kristin Davis has been one of the great joys for me.
I can't help but feel that stuff that comes to me by chance or on purpose, whatever, tends to reflect where I am as a human being.
The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London.
I'm hyperconscious of the other person. I want to fulfill whatever they need from me.
As an actor, you're always in situations that can be compromising. But you can wipe away that gray area by making a choice.
Hollywood is not good when it comes to age.
We get to do outrageous things on television, because it's cable.
I always liked the Raiders of the Lost Ark. I still want to be Indiana Jones.
David tends to use actors again and again. The first thing we had in common was drinking red wine. During Blue Velvet we'd go out and share wine quite a lot.
During my time with Laura Dern, we studied with an acting teacher in Lenox, Massachussetts. It was deep emotional work, going back and unlocking stuff from childhood.
I haven't been out partying. After we finish the show, the best I can muster is having a drink.
Renting out the house in LA was so freeing.
1974 meant big cuffs, bell-bottoms, platform shoes with two-tone colors, and body-conscious shirts.
I grew up with successful parents; I was never afraid of hard work. We were taught that early on. It's invaluable to have that work ethic now.
I'm attracted to real sexual women; my first reaction has to be a physical one. Then you find out what else is there.
I garden a lot in LA, so fashion consists of boots, work pants and T-shirts, unless I'm going out.
What is it about me people respond to? There's more in there than people see.
The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.
I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul.
I've wondered why I play eccentric characters, but people probably get that impression because of my association with David Lynch. The worlds he creates are so strange.
I've always been attracted to strong women. I like women who have some mystery to them. But the main thing I want is to find somebody I can be honest with.
I get to play a villain. That should be fun.
I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession.
They don't do any male frontal shots in Sex and the City, which is good.
I have to go look for a fake nipple ring.
When I was doing Dune, they were also working on Conan, so Arnold had brought an entire gym to the hotel.
For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you're hung out to dry. It's like being a mink.
The characters I've been doing lately have so much torment and searching and questioning. It's where I am right now as a man-I'm continually questioning who I am.
As for the ending to Twin Peaks, the makers were planning on a whole other story arc.
I do get a lot of comments walking down the street. New Yorkers are very vocal.
Discussions in my family consisted of, You're wrong-now go up to bed without your tea and stop complaining.
Lara's work seemed to be intuitive. There was a certain rawness. When I'm working, there's a lot of torment; I don't feel comfortable. She seemed very secure.
I already felt disengaged with my contemporaries.
Lynch is not as strange as his films. He's a complex guy with a very interesting view of the world. But he's very accessible, with a good heart.
I can move around the floor, but I don't know if I'd call that dancing!
I was heavily involved in the music department at my high school.
It's like I'm in the middle of a tunnel, and I don't know where it's leading.
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