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" 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
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" In some ways, my naivete saved me. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't think death is a negative thing at all. I think it can be very positive. "
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" My biggest fear in life is fear. "
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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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" 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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" If something scares me, then I have to do it. "
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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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" If something scares me, then I have to do it. My biggest fear in life is fear. "
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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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" 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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" I loved 'Blue Velvet.' "
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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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World
" I highly recommend tantric sex workshops. "
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Sex
" I don't go to regular music festivals because I tend to run in the opposite direction wherever there's big crowds. "
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Run
Music
" 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. "
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Just
Matter
Television
" I just wanted to work with David Lynch. "
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Wanted
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" 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. "
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You
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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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Doing
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" Everybody has secrets. "
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Everybody
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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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You
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" 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. "
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" 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? "
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" I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album. "
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" Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a girl without a secret. "
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" You'll read a script, and it'll grab me, or it won't. "
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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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" But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character. "
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" I had a little house, and I sold that and moved into a condo, then sold the condo... I kept downsizing and downsizing. "
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House