Top 44 Twin Peaks Quotes

‘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.

As good as ‘Twin Peaks’ was, and I mean, it’s a superb work that’s way ahead of its time, and we’ve never caught up, and we never will… I mean, we will never catch up to ‘Twin Peaks.’

Our culture is so inundated with Freudian prototypes, and I think that ‘Twin Peaks’ came up with a whole new Pandora’s Box of outlandishly mental, out of balance people that have never been described or have been noted by the psychiatric community.

Gravity Falls’ has so much inspiration that comes from ‘Twin Peaks,’ the idea of Agent Cooper being the one to drive Dipper and Mabel home made me feel like, yeah, they’re going to be all right.

‘Twin Peaks’ fans, it’s a hardcore group of people.

As soon as I knew we were going to be doing tribute episodes, and as soon as I knew the landscape of ‘Psych’ allowed us to do homages, the show creator and I both had respective dreams. His was a musical episode, and mine was a ‘Twin Peaks’ episode.

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.’

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

I think the amazing thing about ‘Twin Peaks’ was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.

And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he’s just a nice guy.

I’m a huge ‘Twin Peaks’ fan.

I don’t know if we would have stuff like ‘Deadwood’ and ‘Boardwalk Empire’ if ‘Twin Peaks’ had never happened.

I’m a massive fan of David Lynch and ‘Twin Peaks.’

Star Trek’ always had a pretty serious atmosphere, but with ‘Twin Peaks,’ you walked onto the set and you had the feeling that everybody was walking around in a trance.

There’s a part of ‘Twin Peaks’ that is sort of a hinged doorway to another, stranger place, if you can imagine such a thing.

One of the only TV shows that I really love is ‘Twin Peaks.’ Kyle McLachlan plays Agent Dale Cooper, and I love Dale Cooper, so I’m in love with Kyle McLachlan. He could be my dad, so it’s really weird.

I would love to be on ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm.’ I’d love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get canceled really early on. I liked ‘Twin Peaks.’ If I had a time machine I’d be in that.

‘Twin Peaks’ without David Lynch is like a dog without a bark.

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

I felt guilty about what happened on ‘Twin Peaks.’ All of a sudden, to have that kind of payoff for doing so little seemed very strange.

My favorite – and I’ve said this before, I know – but my favorite TV show of all time is ‘Twin Peaks.’

‘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.

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.

‘Twin Peaks’ is my favorite American TV show.

One of my first episodic jobs was on ‘Twin Peaks,’ if you can imagine that – one of the most unusual series ever.

I was a massive fan of ‘Twin Peaks.’ Massive. I don’t know how any of us grew up in this age of television and weren’t astounded, and saying that, I’m still shocked that that was on network television.

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.

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.

Tom Hooper had done ‘John Adams,’ and David Lynch did ‘Twin Peaks.’ I figured I could do eight hours of television, and I wanted to.

If everything else falls apart and I’m broke, in 20 years I’ll still be able to do ‘Twin Peaks’ conventions.

When the audience first sees Cooper talking into his tape recorder at the beginning of ‘Twin Peaks,’ I think that’s the greatest introduction to a character I’ve seen in my career. It tells you everything about the guy right there in a few minutes as well as bringing up a whole load of questions.

The fact ‘Twin Peaks’ had a life at all took most of us in the cast by surprise. We thought it would be too unusual for network television. The original intention was that it would be a two-hour movie. If the network didn’t want to pick it up as a series, it could just show that. But ABC took a chance.

‘Twin Peaks’ was incredibly slow, methodic, taking shots that were uncomfortably long, with a lot of scenes where there was barely any dialogue. ‘Riverdale’ has a much faster pace.

I grew up in Colorado – went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks.

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

I’d watch shows like ‘The Kids in the Hall’ or ‘Twin Peaks,’ and I’d see weird people being celebrated and appreciated without compromising their weirdness. On ‘The Facts of Life,’ I’d see girls who were pudgy, beautiful, popular, tomboyish – many ways of being female – and I’d feel quietly reassured.

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.

I’ve always said that ‘Twin Peaks,’ to me, was like a novel we filmed every page of.

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

I can’t say I’ve watched ‘Twin Peaks.’ I feel like I wouldn’t be comfortable doing so until after I’m done with ‘Riverdale.’

‘Twin Peaks’ is the one thing in my career that I can really look back on, that I really respect and love and honor as something that’s different. The one thing that I can hang onto.

Those of us who were on ‘Twin Peaks’ can very easily make fun of it, but we get along really well, and we have a playful energy together.

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.

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.