“It’s almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.”
― Sheryl Lee
“The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I have a thing about angels. I believe in them. I feel like I have a guardian angel. I think everybody has one.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I’m grateful for anything that brings me back to Colorado.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I had a little house, and I sold that and moved into a condo, then sold the condo… I kept downsizing and downsizing.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I highly recommend tantric sex workshops.”
― Sheryl Lee
“And in the middle of one of those scenes, I suddenly felt my heart just open: it was overwhelming, to the point where I got teary-eyed. Never would I have thought anything like that could happen in a love scene.”
― Sheryl Lee
“Apparently I’m the most naked that anyone’s been on TNT. My poor mother. I’m ready to run away.”
― Sheryl Lee
“But I’m attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.”
― Sheryl Lee
“Every actress has a line she’ll draw, where she’ll say, ‘This I will do and this I won’t.’ For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why.”
― Sheryl Lee
“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.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I just found out last week – my sister told me – that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid.”
― Sheryl Lee
“If something scares me, then I have to do it.”
― Sheryl Lee
“It’s awkward: Here you are with most of your clothes off in bed with this person who you’ve really just met. You’re strangers to each other’s bodies and you’re coming together for the first time in front of all these people.”
― Sheryl Lee
“It’s still difficult for me to watch my work.”
― Sheryl Lee
“My biggest fear in life is fear.”
― Sheryl Lee
“You always hear actresses talk about how unromantic it is to act a love scene or a sex scene – which it is. You’re doing it with all these lights on and cameras flying around and people on the set.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I’ve always had a fascination with vampires. It’s not that I’m exactly fascinated with the dark side. It’s the human struggle with it. How we deal with those two aspects of who we are. We all have those elements.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I’m fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I’m not committed to any specific one.”
― Sheryl Lee
“Animals weren’t put on this earth to entertain us.”
― Sheryl Lee
“If something scares me, then I have to do it. My biggest fear in life is fear.”
― Sheryl Lee
“Twin Peaks’ without David Lynch is like a girl without a secret.”
― Sheryl Lee
“Well, there’s two things that happen when people experience something, whether it’s a song, a television show, a film, a book or any piece of art. It connects them to a certain part of their life and whatever was going on at that time in their life.”
― Sheryl Lee
“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.”
― Sheryl Lee
“From the age of 40, I went through illness for four and a half years. I tried to keep working through it as much as I could, but I was physically not able to do it as much, and if you look sick, it’s hard to get a job.”
― Sheryl Lee
“David Lynch is a very kind and warm-hearted man. I really think he’s brilliant.”
― Sheryl Lee
“Someday I’d love to come back and start a theater company in Boulder. That would be a dream come true.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I know if somebody played me, I’d want to check her out.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I just wanted to work with David Lynch.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I loved ‘Blue Velvet.’”
― Sheryl Lee
“David Lynch saw my picture in a casting agent’s office in Seattle. I got a call to see him, and the rest is history.”
― Sheryl Lee
“Salome’s of royal blood. She knows whatever she asks she’s going to get.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I was the kind of kid, I’d sit in the back row of the class with my head practically under the desk. I was incredibly afraid of people and very shy.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I still get terrified if I have to talk in front of a group of people. By having a character to play, it makes it safer.”
― Sheryl Lee
“When I was a kid, we played outside until we couldn’t see and had to go in. I rode my bicycle and played tag football, kick the can, and hide-and-go-seek.”
― Sheryl Lee
“For some weird reason, people have a fascination with Laura Palmer.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I don’t go to regular music festivals because I tend to run in the opposite direction wherever there’s big crowds.”
― Sheryl Lee
“People are doing so many incredible, inspiring, interesting things all over this country, and I think that’s where the hope is – seeing how innovative and creative people can be.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I don’t think death is a negative thing at all. I think it can be very positive.”
― Sheryl Lee
“Society has a fascination with death.”
― Sheryl Lee
“There’s something about death. It’s like trying to understand our own mortality and immortality. That’s why society is so into things like vampires, because they don’t die. Well, why don’t they die?”
― Sheryl Lee
“I’m starting to understand why certain people in the entertainment business reach a point where they say, ‘I’m not going to do any more interviews.’ I definitely understand that.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I was living in Seattle. I was 21 years old, just going to do theater. And I got a call that David Lynch was in town and wanted to meet with me.”
― Sheryl Lee
“It’s important for me, when looking at a role, to decide whether or not to take the journey of that character. Will I grow as an actress? And will I grow as a person?”
― Sheryl Lee
“I had no idea it was going to be like this. People come up to me all the time, but it’s never, ‘Oh, you’re Sheryl Lee.’ It’s, ‘Oh my gosh, you’re Laura Palmer.’”
― Sheryl Lee
“Everybody has secrets.”
― Sheryl Lee
“Because Laura Palmer was dead… there was always this strange sense that people were seeing a ghost when they would see me.”
― Sheryl Lee
“People don’t set out being bad. They have deep pain inside.”
― Sheryl Lee
“It doesn’t matter whether it’s television or films or the theater. I just have to believe in what I’m doing. If I don’t believe in it, I won’t do it.”
― Sheryl Lee
“You’ll read a script, and it’ll grab me, or it won’t.”
― Sheryl Lee
“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.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I did a few independent films, but there is no money in them.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I went into dancing but damaged my knees so decided to become an actress instead.”
― Sheryl Lee
“My doctor suggested doing some blood tests and immediately discovered that my white blood cell count was low. So then I went through many more tests including bone marrow biopsies until they figured out that I had neutropenia.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I have to be very aware of how I manage my health. I still have relapses if I push myself too hard and my immune system can’t handle it.”
― Sheryl Lee
“People always assume that, if you’re an actor who’s been on anything from which you’re recognisable, that you’re making all this money, and it’s just not true.”
― Sheryl Lee
“Most actors I’m in touch with are struggling financially.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I want to watch my son grow up. I want to spend time with my family. There’s a lot of the world that I want to see and experience.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I love being directed, and I feel so grateful to be able to get to work with some of the directors I’ve worked with.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I love directors who aren’t going back to the stereotypes, who are helping write and create roles for women that are not in the typical Hollywood box. I’m very, very interested in films that are going outside of stereotypical roles for women.”
― Sheryl Lee
“Media is a powerful thing, and you see it with so many actors, where one role that brings them a lot of attention is sort of how they get defined.”
― Sheryl Lee
“I was just this kid from Colorado studying theater, and suddenly I was on a hit TV show.”
― Sheryl Lee
“In some ways, my naivete saved me.”
― Sheryl Lee
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