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.
Apparently, when Twin Peaks was on the air in Spain, something like 50 percent of televisions were tuned to it.
As an actor, you're always in situations that can be compromising. But you can wipe away that gray area by making a choice.
As for the ending to Twin Peaks, the makers were planning on a whole other story arc.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dune had too many expectations riding on it at the time.
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.
Hamlet is a little daunting.
Hollywood is not good when it comes to age.
I already felt disengaged with my contemporaries.
I always liked the Raiders of the Lost Ark. I still want to be Indiana Jones.
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 either chafe at it or give in and enjoy it. I chose to enjoy it, I think.
I can't get a job, I can't get arrested.
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.
I do get a lot of comments walking down the street. New Yorkers are very vocal.
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.
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.
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.
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 had a ball with Linda, but then I met the love of my life.
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 had no control over my film career, so I became very controlling over my house. It was asphyxiating.
I have to go look for a fake nipple ring.
I haven't been out partying. After we finish the show, the best I can muster is having a drink.
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 questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me.
I really fight for my privacy.
I think children are much more aware of what goes on around them much earlier than we give them credit for.
I want to get beyond the courtesy stage. My father and I have a ritual: Whenever I go home, we play golf together.
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.
I was heavily involved in the music department at my high school.
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'd spend all day thinking of ways to change it. It was Hey, let's completely redecorate all the bedrooms.
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'm friends with Francesca Annis and Patrick Stewart to this day.
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've been able to fly under the radar of the press for the most part.
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've got obsessed with the gym. I go every day. I can't stop thinking about working out. God, that's worrying.
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?
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.
It did happen quickly, but we didn't get together on the first night. We got together on the second.
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.
It's a pleasure to work with four very talented women.
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.
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.
It's like I'm in the middle of a tunnel, and I don't know where it's leading.
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.
It's worth the effort for me not to accept less.
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.
My mother was a wonderful pianist. We all took piano lessons when we were young. But I've never composed anything.
My workout is my meditation.
One corridor is pretty much like another.
People seemed to suddenly like me because I was the lead in the play.
Renting out the house in LA was so freeing.
Showgirls was different from anything I had done before. I didn't set out to make a camp classic, but that's what happened.
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.
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.
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?
The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London.
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.
There are three boys in the family; I'm the eldest.
There is no one in particular that I follow. I like Harrison Ford.
They don't do any male frontal shots in Sex and the City, which is good.
We get to do outrageous things on television, because it's cable.
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.
We only get Mondays off, and I've been trying to play as much golf as possible.
What is it about me people respond to? There's more in there than people see.
When I was doing Dune, they were also working on Conan, so Arnold had brought an entire gym to the hotel.
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.
Working for 90 minutes without a cut or a break in front of the camera was challenging, to say the least.
You have to ask yourself, How can that work? I get obsessed with these details.
Kyle was to star as Cinderella's prince in the film version of Steven Sondheim's musical "Into The Woods," but director/producer Rob Reiner abandoned the project.
Kyle refused to let the writers on "Twin Peaks" develop his character's relationship with an adolescent girl any further because he believed it was totally improper for an adult FBI agent to possibly have a romantic connection to a teenager.
Kyle regularly dyes his hair for projects he works on.
Kyle is a coffee aficionado like his character on "Twin Peaks" and has an industrial model coffee maker in his home. He likes to make cappucino in the morning and espresso in the afternoon.
Kyle enjoys golf and has played in the Dunhill Links championship and plans on playing in the Mercedes Championships on January 1-7, 2007.
Kyle narrated an audio book for a Twin Peaks novel, "Diane: The Twin Peaks Tapes Of Agent Cooper" in 1990.
Kyle was nominated in 1996 for the Razzie Award for Worst Actor in the 1995 film Showgirls.
Kyle's family name, MacLachlan, is from one of the oldest clans in Scotland. In Irish history, the MacLachlans are from the same line as the O'Neills, High Kings of Ireland.
Kyle has recently done commercials for a British cellphone company, Vodafone.
Kyle has done a number of commercials for the Japanese coffee brand, Georgia Coffee, with David Lynch directing him.
Kyle and his wife have two dogs, a Jack Russell terrier and a Yorkshire/Chihuahua mix. He and his wife have created a website for them, www.samandmookie.com.
He dated Laura Dern.
David Lynch is his friend.
Kyle auditioned for the role of Dr. Gregory House. He was quoted as saying, "... It was probably one of the worst auditions of my life."
After a 14-year absence from the theater, Kyle made his London stage debut in 2002 in On an Average Day in the West End.
MacLachlan won a Golden Globe award for his offbeat role as Agent Cooper in Twin Peaks in 1990.
After appearing in the infamous flop Showgirls in 1995, MacLachlan returned to prominence with a reoccurring role on HBO's Sex and the City in 1998 as well as a starring role in the TV movie The Spring in 2000.
Believes that he is a direct descendent of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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