Twin Peaks is an American mystery-horror drama TV series that was created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, and in this article, we will share with you some of the best Twin Peaks quotes. But first, a little bit about the show.
Twin Peaks ran for two seasons only during the years 1990-1991 and then it got cancelled. Although the show ran for two season only, it would be wrong to say that it was a failure, as over the years after the show got cancelled, it gained popularity and even a cult following.
Fans love and adore the show and it even got critically acclaimed, with time becoming a cult TV series. Twin Peaks follows Dale Cooper, an FBI Special Agent played by Kyle MacLachlan, as he along with the town’s Sheriff Harry S. Truman, played by Michael Ontkean, investigate the murder of Laura Palmer, played by Sheryl Lee.
The show involves different elements in it, like: the supernatural, melodrama, detective fiction, and more. Twin Peaks was followed by a movie in 1992, titled “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me”, which is both a prequel and a sequel to the show.
The show stars Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Sheryl Lee, Mädchen Amick, Lara Flynn Boyle, Heather Graham, David Lynch, Billy Zane, Dana Ashbrook, Peggy Lipton, James Marshall and others.
Twin Peaks Dale Cooper Quotes
Dale Cooper: This must be where pies go when they die.
Season 1, episode 3, Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer
Dale Cooper: In the grand design, women were drawn from a different set of blueprints.
Season 1, episode 4, Rest in Pain
Dale Cooper: Nothing’s a sure thing.
Season 1, episode 1, Northwest Passage
Dale Cooper: Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don’t plan it, don’t wait for it, just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men’s store, a catnap in your office chair or two cups of good hot black coffee.
Season 1, episode 6, Cooper’s Dreams
Dale Cooper: You know, this is, excuse me, a damn fine cup of coffee.
Season 1, episode 2, Traces to Nowhere
Dale Cooper: I have no idea where this will lead us. But I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.
Season 2, episode 18, On the Wings of Love
Dale Cooper: What I want and what I need are two different things.
Season 1, episode 6, Cooper’s Dreams
Dale Cooper: Coincidence and fate figure largely in our lives.
Season 2, episode 18, On the Wings of Love
Dale Cooper: The last few steps are always the darkest and most difficult.
Season 2, episode 8, Drive with a Dead Girl
Dale Cooper: When the will is invoked, the recuperative powers of the physical body are simply extraordinary.
Season 2, episode 1, May the Giant Be with You
Dale Cooper: A man who doesn’t love easily, loves too much.
Season 2, episode 17, Wounds and Scars
Dale Cooper: Great players are either far or few.
Season 2, episode 15, Slaves and Masters
Dale Cooper: Habit can provide a strong foundation.
Season 2, episode 12, The Black Widow
Dale Cooper: Heaven is a large and interesting place.
Season 2, episode 4, Laura’s Secret Diary
Dale Cooper: Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
Season 2, episode 11, Masked Ball
Dale Cooper: Black as midnight on a moonless night.
Season 1, episode 2, Traces to Nowhere
Dale Cooper: There’s nothing quite like urinating out in the open air.
Season 2, episode 10, Dispute Between Brothers
Dale Cooper: Our job is simple. Break the code, solve the crime.
Season 1, episode 3, Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer
Dale Cooper: Nothing beats the taste sensation when maple syrup collides with ham.
Season 1, episode 3, Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer
Twin Peaks the Log Lady Quotes
The Log Lady: One day, my log will have something to say about this.
Season 1, episode 2, Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer
The Log Lady: Shut your eyes and you’ll burst into flames.
Season 1, episode 6, Realization Time
The Log Lady: Where does creamed corn figure into the workings of the universe? What really is creamed corn? Is it a symbol for something else?
Season 2, episode 2, Coma
The Log Lady: Is there an answer? Of course there is. A wise person once said with a smile, the answer is within the question.
Season 2, episode 6, Demons
The Log Lady: I do not introduce the log.
Season 2, episode 2, Coma
The Log Lady: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Yet there are those who open many eyes.
Season 1, episode 7, Realization Time
The Log Lady: My log does not judge.
Season 1, episode 6, Cooper’s Dreams
The Log Lady: These ideas speak so strangely. All that we see in this world is based on someone’s ideas. Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream.
Season 1, episode 3, Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer
The Log Lady: Even the ones who laugh are sometimes caught without an answer.
Season 1, episode 5, The One-Armed Man
The Log Lady: Sometimes ideas, like men, jump up and say, ‘Hello!’ They introduce themselves, these ideas, with words – are they words? These ideas speak so strangely.
Season 1, episode 3, Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer
The Log Lady: There is a sadness in this world, for we are ignorant of many things.
Season 1, episode 4, Rest in Pain
The Log Lady: A drunken man walks in a way that is quite impossible for a sober man to imitate, and vice versa. An evil man has a way, no matter how clever. To the trained eye, his way will show itself.
Season 1, episode 8, The Last Evening
Twin Peaks Audrey Horne Quotes
Audrey Horne: When something you care about is in danger, you must fight to save it or lose it forever.
Season 2, episode 21, Miss Twin Peaks
Audrey Horne: First rule of business is you have to know who to speak to.
Season 2, episode 10, Dispute Between Brothers
Audrey Horne: Friendship is the foundation of any lasting relationship.
Season 2, episode 10, Dispute Between Brothers
Audrey Horne: l’m insane? Well, l’m Audrey Horne and l get what l want.
Season 2, episode 2, Coma
Audrey Horne: In real life, there is no algebra.
Season 1, episode 4, Rest in Pain
Bobby Briggs: Is there anything I can do for you?
Audrey Horne: How about taking me out for some ice cream?
Bobby Briggs: Cup or cone?
Audrey Horne: Cone. I like to lick.
Season 2, episode 10, Dispute Between Brothers
Audrey Horne: What a gyp. Finally meet the man of my dreams and next thing I know he’s on a plane to Brazil.
Season 2, episode 20, The Path to the Black Lodge
Audrey Horne: He’s got emotional problems. Runs in the family.
Season 1, episode 2, Traces to Nowhere
Audrey Horne: You know, there’s only one problem with you. you’re perfect.
Season 2, episode 10, Dispute Between Brothers
Twin Peaks Sheriff Harry S. Truman Quotes
Sheriff Harry S. Truman: Where there’s no sense, there’s no feeling.
Season 1, episode 2, Traces to Nowhere
Sheriff Harry S. Truman: There’s a sort of evil out there. Something very, very strange in these old woods. Call it what you want. A darkness, a presence. It takes many forms, but it’s been out there for as long as anyone can remember and we’ve always been here to fight it.
Season 1, episode 3, Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer
Sheriff Harry S. Truman: I’d never heard of a man who murdered by the rules.
Season 2, episode 16, The Condemned Woman
Sheriff Harry S. Truman: You know, I think I’d better start studying medicine.
Dale Cooper: And why is that?
Sheriff Harry S. Truman: Because I’m beginning to feel a bit like Dr. Watson.
Season 1, episode 2, Traces to Nowhere
Dale Cooper: Who’s the lady with the log?
Sheriff Harry S. Truman: We call her the Log Lady.
Season 1, episode 1, Northwest Passage
Sheriff Harry S. Truman: Albert, I understand you’re the best that there is. Agent Cooper told me that you do your job very well.
Albert Rosenfield: That’s right.
Sheriff Harry S. Truman: Good. Because normally if a stranger walked into my police station talking that kind of insulting crap, he’d be looking for his front teeth two blocks away on Queer Street!
Season 1, episode 3, Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer
Sheriff Harry S. Truman: Anything we should be working on?
Albert Rosenfield: Yeah. You might practice walking without dragging your knuckles on the floor. Heh heh heh.
Sheriff Harry S. Truman: Albert! Let’s talk about knuckles. The last time I knocked you down, I felt bad about it, the next time’s gonna be a real pleasure.
Season 2, episode 3, The Man Behind the Glass
Sheriff Harry S. Truman: If I understand law correctly, you need extradition papers in order to get a statement from me. And you need a subpoena from a judge. Now unless you gentlemen have that paperwork I suggest you take your cooperation, and stuff it.
Season 2, episode 10, Dispute Between Brothers
Twin Peaks Gordon Cole Quotes
Gordon Cole: They say that love makes the world go around. Makes people who need people the luckiest people in the world. Although, they never said a damn thing about a cure for hearing loss.
Season 2, episode 19, Variations on Relations
Gordon Cole: That’s the kind of girl that makes you wish you spoke a little French.
Season 2, episode 18, On the Wings of Love
Gordon Cole: Let a smile be your umbrella.
Season 2, episode 11, Masked Ball
Gordon Cole: You’ll have to speak up Sheriff, hearing is gone, Long story. Got these things cranked up to the max.
Season 2, episode 6, Demons
Gordon Cole: Don’t let them rattle you, Coop. These guys make a living looking through other people’s drawers.
Season 2, episode 11, Masked Ball
Gordon Cole: What a beauty. Reminds me of that statue, the babe without the arms.
Season 2, episode 18, On the Wings of Love
Gordon Cole: We are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives inside the dream.
Season 3, episode 14, We Are Like the Dreamer
Twin Peaks Miscellaneous Quotes
Bobby Briggs: Too bad we can only kill him once.
Season 1, episode 1, Northwest Passage
Blackie O’Reilly: When you really want love, you’ll find it waiting for you.
Season 1, episode 2, Traces to Nowhere
Garland Briggs: Any time a man dies in war, he dies too soon.
Season 1, episode 3, Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer
Tommy Hill: One woman can make you fly like an eagle, another can give you the strength of a lion, but only one in the cycle of life can fill your heart with wonder and the wisdom that you have known a singular joy.
Season 1, episode 4, Rest in Pain
James Hurley: It’s the secrets people keep that destroy any chance they have of happiness.
Season 1, episode 6, Cooper’s Dreams
Hank Jennings: Once you’re in business with somebody, you’re in business for life.
Season 1, episode 7, Realization Time
Jerry Horne: Well begun is half done.
Season 2, episode 1, May the Giant Be with You
Bobby Briggs: Hospitals are dangerous places. First of all, they’re crawling with sick people. And second of all, that food can kill you.
Season 2, episode 1, May the Giant be with You
Harold Smith: There are things you can’t get anywhere…but, we dream they can be found in other people.
Season 2, episode 5, The Orchid’s Curse
Jean Renault: You know, you love a good steak but you don’t want to know how it got on your plate.
Season 2, episode 5, The Orchid’s Curse
Jerry Horne: As your attorney, your friend, and your brother, I strongly suggest that you get yourself a better lawyer.
Season 2, episode 8, Drive with a Dead Girl
Leland Palmer: Through the dark of futures past, the magician longs to see, one chants out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
Season 2, episode 9, Arbitrary Law
Tommy Hill: You may be fearless in this world, but there are other worlds.
Season 2, episode 11, Masked Ball
Benjamin Horne: Admiration is for poets and dairy cows.
Season 2, episode 12, The Black Widow
Jerry Horne: One man’s crisis is another man’s opportunity.
Season 2, episode 15, Slaves and Masters
Benjamin Horne: What is the greatest gift that one human being can give to another? The future.
Season 2, episode 16, The Condemned Woman
Annie Blackburn: Hiding from your fear doesn’t make your fear go away.
Season 2, episode 19, Variations on Relations
Windom Earle: The only thing that Columbus discovered was that he was lost.
Season 2, episode 20, The Path to the Black Lodge
Interesting Facts about Twin Peaks
Now, after these fine and clever quotes from the show, it’s time to have a look at some interesting facts about Twin Peaks.
- The Show was Supposed to Take Place at a Different Place – We know that the show takes place in the fictional town of Twin Peaks, that is located in Washington State, but originally, it was supposed to take place in North Dakota, and was supposed to be titled “Northwest Passage”. They wanted the show to take place far away from the world, but wanted the mystery of the forest and the darkness of the west, so eventually they decided on Twin Peaks in Washington State.
- Isabella Rossellini Almost Played a Part in the Show – The first choice to play the role of Josie Packard who was the wealthy widow, was Isabella Rossellini, who was then also David Lynch’s girlfriend. According to Rossellini, there was a concern about time commitment to the show and eventually the role went to Joan Chen, with the part re-written so it would fit the Chinese background of Chen.
- The actor who played “Bob” was Cast from the Crew – The terrifying character of Bob was played by Frank Silva who got the part spontaneously. At the time, Silva was the set decorator of the show when Lynch got struck by an idea. One day, Silva was moving furniture around Laura Palmer’s bedroom, when Lynch asked him to crouch down by the bed. When Silva did what Lynch had asked him, they shot him down by Palmer’s bed and starring right at the camera. Lynch still had no idea how to use that footage, until he discovered that Bob showed up in Palmer’s visions, and his character was born.
- Harry S. Truman and Dale Cooper Share Names with Famous People – Dale cooper shares his name with D. B. Cooper who hijacked a plane and then parachuted from it with stolen money to disappear and stay a mystery to this day. Sheriff Harry S. Truman shares his name with Harry Truman who in 1980 refused to leave his place (which was a lodge) during the eruption of Mount St. Helens.
- In the Red Room, Lines Were Said Backwards – If you remember, the red room was the place where Laura Palmer was alive, we saw an old Dale Cooper, there was a dancing man from a different or another place, and the characters that spoke weird. In order to speak the way they did in the red room, actors had to learn and recite all lines and text backwards. Then, it was played backwards so it would fix it and sound right again.
- Steven Spielberg Almost Directed an Episode for the Show – Steven Spielberg was a devoted viewer of the show (season 1) and really wanted to direct the opening episode of season 2. Creator of the show Mark Frost and writer and producer Harley Peyton sat down with Spielberg for a long meeting and discussed the possibility of him directing the first episode of season 2. Spielberg wanted to make this episode extremely weird, as weird as it can get, but for some reason it wasn’t enough for David Lynch who decided to direct the episode himself. Lynch did offer Spielberg to direct a different episode in the future, but unfortunately that did not happen.
- The Creators of the Show Didn’t Want to Reveal Palmer’s Killer – Mark Frost and David Lynch didn’t want to reveal who killed Laura Palmer so quickly during the show. If it was up to them, this mystery wouldn’t have been solved for at least season 2. However, ABC started to pressure both to reveal who her killer was, even to the point when ABC stopped being nice about their request from Frost and Lynch. They demanded the show to produce a killer in season one of the show and that this episode will air during sweeps week. Lynch was furious, saying the show was dead, and the exact opposite occurred when the episode was aired. Rating was bad, ABC did not get what they wished for with their request, and not long after, the show got canceled.
- Mikhail Gorbachev was a Huge Fan of Twin Peaks – First, let’s start by saying that this fact is allegedly true. Now, let’s elaborate. One day, Jules Haimovitz who was a TV executive and worked for Spelling Productions, got a phone call from the big boss, Aaron Spelling himself. Spelling demanded to know who was Laura’s Palmer killer. However, it wasn’t really Spelling asking for the information, so bear with me here. Spelling got a call from financier Carl Lindner, who said he was calling on behalf of George H.W. Bush (the president at the time), who was asking this information for none-other than Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the USSR. Some claim he was a huge fan of the show, although he himself denied it, claiming he had no idea what Twin Peaks is or was.
- Twin Peaks Population was Changed – In the opening credits of the show there’s a sign showing the population of Twin Peaks Town. Originally, it was supposed to say 5,120, however the executives of ABC were worried (allegedly) that shows that took place in rural areas won’t attract enough viewers, so the population was eventually changed to 51,201.
- Diane Keaton Directed an Episode for the Show – Unlike Steven Spielberg, Diane Keaton did direct an episode of Twin Peaks. It was the episode titled “Slaves and Masters” in season 2 of the show.
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