Top 35 Jennifer Lynch Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.”

— Jennifer Lynch

2. “Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don’t just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.”

— Jennifer Lynch

3. “If I am a better person, and if I try harder every day, perhaps all of this will work out.”

— Jennifer Lynch

4. “I will not let anyone hurt me, like in the dream. I’ll hurt myself first. I know the places that are the most delicate. I’ll do the hurting from now on, as long as all of this stops!!!!”

— Jennifer Lynch

5. “I have gone insane. I won’t be talking with you for a while.”

— Jennifer Lynch

6. “The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.”

— Jennifer Lynch

7. “Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It’s hard enough to do the dishes when you’re feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.”

— Jennifer Lynch

8. “I really believe that if you’re going to bring a child into the world, it’s your job to parent that world. Especially if it’s just you; you don’t pawn her off on somebody.”

— Jennifer Lynch

9. “I think of death these days as a companion I long to meet.”

— Jennifer Lynch

10. “Some people are just not going to like me and they’re not going to like my work. But that doesn’t mean I’m a bad person.”

— Jennifer Lynch

11. “Indigo, the deep blue contains an abundance of sapphires shining their light through the density, awakening and stirring our consciousness. In the daylight the sea will change, but for now it remains mysterious, obtainable through our imagination.”

— Jennifer Lynch

12. “The first time I saw ‘Sunset Boulevard’ I was probably eight or nine years old, and it really struck me how it’s so simply put and elegant, yet there’s so much going on.”

— Jennifer Lynch

13. “So I spent my birthday alone. I went out to where I go with BOB. It was light out, and everything seemed like an awful dream, until I saw a piece of rope lying at the back of the base of his favorite tree. I got a chill, but forced it away. I tried to look carefully at the tree, to find something that would explain why he picked this place, this tree. There was nothing. I made sure I was alone before I did what I had planned.”

— Jennifer Lynch

14. “I have found light and pleasure inside the horror.”

— Jennifer Lynch

15. “Trust yourself so that the mistakes you make are the ones you’ve made and not something you’ve made because you were afraid to do what you wanted to do. Own your mistakes, then you can own your successes.”

— Jennifer Lynch

16. “Sometimes I think he’s just chosen to keep quiet because it is so much more interesting sometimes to just listen to people instead of talking to them.”

— Jennifer Lynch

17. “I am more comfortable on set than I am in my own home.”

— Jennifer Lynch

18. “I love how a story can help someone discuss something they otherwise would not.”

— Jennifer Lynch

19. “Mi sono accorta subito che Lawrence era attratto da me. L’importante non era questo, ma l’origine della sua attrazione. Si era innamorato delle due Laure, proprio della ragione per cui desideravo disperatamente morire. Quella che io consideravo come una maledizione, per lui era una cosa eccitante e onesta. Non rideva della mia sofferenza. L’accettava.”

— Jennifer Lynch

20. “I don’t think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren’t a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.”

— Jennifer Lynch

21. “Accept that you are bad and dirty and cheap and should be thrown to the wolves as scrap meat, and must never bear children, for who knows the faces they would be locked behind from birth until death.”

— Jennifer Lynch

22. “I trust no one, and only rarely myself. I struggle most mornings, afternoons, and evenings with what is right an what is wrong. I do not understand if I am being punished for something I have done wrong, something I don’t remember, or if this happens to everyone, and I am just too stupid to understand it.”

— Jennifer Lynch

23. “I’m a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.”

— Jennifer Lynch

24. “For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn’t hurting someone else.”

— Jennifer Lynch

25. “My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I’m perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I’m lucky.”

— Jennifer Lynch

26. “I want to investigate what scares me and worries me.”

— Jennifer Lynch

27. “I may not be wealthy; I’m living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.”

— Jennifer Lynch

28. “For me, one of the most important things I look for in an actor is whether we can converse. Do we have a similar ability to discuss a character?”

— Jennifer Lynch

29. “I don’t want to feed my dreams.”

— Jennifer Lynch

30. “When you love something, it never goes away.”

— Jennifer Lynch

31. “464Joy is found in the breath of acceptance knowing that all is well in our world, if we surrender with grace.”

— Jennifer Lynch

32. “I have such an anger and an urge to charge at the sky, to call the wind a liar for never showing itself. An urge to scream at the two who allowed my birth. Cries for help to anyone who will hear them. To scream into the street that there is a lack of miracles in Mother Nature herself. Her divinity is a lie. In.”

— Jennifer Lynch

33. “I wonder if pain, the kind that doesn’t just happen when your cat is killed, or when your aunt dies, but the kind that you have to live with... can it ever be a friend?”

— Jennifer Lynch

34. “She says I think too many sad thoughts, and that if I keep it up, who knows what will happen. Donna doesn’t know everything I know. I can’t help but think sad thoughts sometimes. Sometimes they are the closest things on my mind.”

— Jennifer Lynch

35. “Everyone still sees the smiling Laura Palmer. The girl with perfect grades and perfect hair and perfect little fingers that want to sometimes, late at night, go into the mirror to strangle the daydreaming troublemaker I see in the reflection!”

— Jennifer Lynch

36. “I have simply forgotten how to be loved. Laura.”

— Jennifer Lynch

37. “I wanted to be a tree so that I could listen for trouble in the woods.”

— Jennifer Lynch

38. “I wonder if life is still something I can make up.”

— Jennifer Lynch

39. “When Linda danced, her body twisted and swayed in a hypnotic motion which caused envy among her dance friends.”

— Jennifer Lynch