Top 66 Quotes & Sayings by Sheryl Lee
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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
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.
If something scares me, then I have to do it. My biggest fear in life is fear.
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.
Someday I'd love to come back and start a theater company in Boulder. That would be a dream come true.
I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.
Society has a fascination with death.
I know if somebody played me, I'd want to check her out.
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.
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?
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.
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.
I highly recommend tantric sex workshops.
I don't go to regular music festivals because I tend to run in the opposite direction wherever there's big crowds.
I did a few independent films, but there is no money in them.
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.'
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.
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.
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.
I had a little house, and I sold that and moved into a condo, then sold the condo... I kept downsizing and downsizing.
If something scares me, then I have to do it.
I just wanted to work with David Lynch.
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.
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.
Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away.
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.
It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.
I loved 'Blue Velvet.'
My biggest fear in life is fear.
It's still difficult for me to watch my work.
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.
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.
Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a girl without a secret.
I don't think death is a negative thing at all. I think it can be very positive.
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.
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.
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.
Salome's of royal blood. She knows whatever she asks she's going to get.
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.
Because Laura Palmer was dead... there was always this strange sense that people were seeing a ghost when they would see me.
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.
I went into dancing but damaged my knees so decided to become an actress instead.
Most actors I'm in touch with are struggling financially.
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.
I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid.
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.
But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.
David Lynch is a very kind and warm-hearted man. I really think he's brilliant.
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?
People don't set out being bad. They have deep pain inside.
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.
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.
For some weird reason, people have a fascination with Laura Palmer.
I have a thing about angels. I believe in them. I feel like I have a guardian angel. I think everybody has one.
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.
You'll read a script, and it'll grab me, or it won't.
The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.
I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album.
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.
Animals weren't put on this earth to entertain us.
Everybody has secrets.
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