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" 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
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" I was just this kid from Colorado studying theater, and suddenly I was on a hit TV show. "
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" 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. "
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" I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album. "
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" Because Laura Palmer was dead... there was always this strange sense that people were seeing a ghost when they would see me. "
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" 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. "
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" Society has a fascination with death. "
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" The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid. "
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" 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. "
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" I went into dancing but damaged my knees so decided to become an actress instead. "
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" 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. "
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" I just wanted to work with David Lynch. "
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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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" I'm grateful for anything that brings me back to Colorado. "
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" Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away. "
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" It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me. "
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" 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. "
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" 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? "
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" 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. "
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