Peaks Quotes

I was doing ‘Twin Peaks,’ and Columbia called and said they wanted me to do ‘Gladiator.’ I thought it had the potential to be a real commercial film, so I was like a kid in a candy store.

Everybody has their own path. Everybody peaks at different times.

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I’m a weird kind of animal.

‘Twin Peaks‘ is a continuing story; that comes from David Lynch and myself.

‘Twin Peaks’ was the best job I ever had as an actor.

When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.

When certain doors opened around ‘Twin Peaks,’ I wasn’t interested in walking through them. Now I just feel like I’m more open to life. I have two children. My life is not dependent on the business in that way.

A lot of people always look back at ‘Twin Peaks’ and say that was the start of this explosion we’ve had in good television drama, but we did it in a time when there were still only three networks.

It’s weird because we live in this age of reboots. Everything is getting rebooted: ‘The X-Files,’ ‘Twin Peaks.’ We have shows like ‘Gravity Falls‘ that were inspired by these shows, that are now ending and being followed up by reboots of the shows that inspired them.

You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.

I think comedy has a range, with multiple peaks in different areas. It’s like trying to compare Beethoven and the Beatles. Sometimes I hear from people, ‘I think you try too hard in your comedy.’ And that’s what I worry about.

There are obviously peaks and valleys in everyone‘s career. This business can be a roller-coaster ride, and it’s really hard to stay on top all the time. Very few people do.

I reject the idea that the guy who comes out of Yale and goes to work in the projects in Newark is good, and the guy who goes to work for a white-shoe law firm is bad. We’re all mountain rangers. We all have peaks and valleys.

Finding love is a fixation now, and that’s because although romantic love can sometimes cause a lot of suffering, it can also give people peaks of happiness that come very close to our ideal of ‘the happy state.’

Twin Peaks’ without David Lynch is like a girl without a secret.

I loved the movie ‘Heathers’ and the TV show ‘Twin Peaks.’

Cycling is an endurance sport. You lose your fast-twitch ability as you age, but your endurance peaks when you hit 30. I don’t think I really started feeling my age until around 40.

The day I turned 16, I moved into my own flat. My parents had just broken up, and I didn’t want to go back to Ireland with my mother. I was doing my A-levels, and my friends would come over and watch ‘Twin Peaks.’

As for ‘Twin Peaks,’ I’m happy to have been a part of something that was a success. The only time I was concerned was during the second season when it started to lose its focus, and I was thinking, ‘What if I get stuck here for five years? I would go crazy.’

I’ve done soap operas in New York, playing a continuing character who goes through changes and develops, but none of that has created the enduring interest that ‘Twin Peaks’ has.

Art is all about giving yourself these terrifying challenges, these peaks to climb. You’re at the bottom of the mountain at the start of every new project thinking, ‘Am I going to make it?’

Once I had left ‘Twin Peaks’ and started doing other shows and other movies, I kept running into, ‘No, no, we can’t do it this way. This is the way it has to happen.’ I’m like, ‘No. I’ve already done it, and it worked, so I don’t understand what you’re saying.’

Interest in a sport peaks during its championship season. That’s when even casual observers turn on their television sets, and lifelong fans are born.

Some bands I’m obsessed with but I get sick of listening to their music after a while, but that hasn’t happened with Twin Peaks.

I became famous for the fact that I would break many, many limits. People said, ‘He does all these crazy things.’ But oddly it was a crazy thing only because scientists and climbers said, ‘Everest and the 8,000-meter peaks without oxygen – impossible. Messner is becoming sick in his head.’

‘Twin Peaks’ is so phenomenal. And it worked because they struck the right tone: they brought intelligence to it, and the mystery itself was compelling.

‘Twin Peaks’ is one of those Rorschach ink blot things, where everybody finds their own favorite thing.

Business cycles naturally entail peaks and troughs in employment, and socially responsible businesses should follow successful examples like Coca-Cola, Alcoa, Saudi Aramco, Africa Rainbow Minerals, and Google in working toward mitigating joblessness and enhancing people’s abilities to earn a livelihood.

Oahu in the distance, a group of grey, barren peaks rising verdureless out of the lonely sea, was not an exception to the rule that the first sight of land is a disappointment.

‘Twin Peaks’ is like a movie; ‘China Beach‘ is like a movie. These are two of the most cinematic shows on television, and they belong together.

In a sense, ‘Twin Peaks’ never really went away. They’ve got a ‘Twin Peaks’ convention up in Washington every year, and I’m pretty much recognized on a fairly regular basis from ‘Twin Peaks,’ so I feel like it never really got too far away.

The Marshall is supposed to be 200 watts, but mine’s never worked right; it peaks out at 80.

For many years, I didn’t feel I’d find anything that I’d like as much as ‘Twin Peaks.’

When I was super young, we were hiking to the top of the 14,000-foot peaks in Colorado. You know, when I was in my early teens, we went to Bolivia and climbed to the tops of the highest mountains in the Alps. You know, those experiences were so exciting that when I came back to school, I was actually quite bored.

When you go through a tournament of seven games, there are peaks and valleys. You kind of ride the players that are hot.

I’m sure ‘Boxing Helena’ will eclipse ‘Twin Peaks’ and Audrey Home for me. If people here go see it.

People think this is easy to be a football player. They only see the summit but they don’t see the ascent, which is far longer and tougher than the career peaks. And there are so few of us to reach the summits. Some might earn €305,000 per month but there are a lot more for whom life is hell.

The challenge for us is to try and come back and raise the bar above what we did the last time. We’re coming back with season three of ‘Twin Peaks’ after a 25-year absence.

I have written about some truly great writers – John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

I do really long DJ sets – I play for five or six hours sometimes – but the live shows are a bit more compact. The arch of how to tell a story, where the energy is, where you have peaks and drops, where things go up and things come down, that’s all being informed by DJ-ing.