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" I just wanted to work with David Lynch. "
Sheryl Lee
Just
Wanted
Work
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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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" Society has a fascination with death. "
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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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" I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character. "
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" David Lynch is a very kind and warm-hearted man. I really think he's brilliant. "
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" It's still difficult for me to watch my work. "
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Difficult
" 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. "
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" 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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" Everybody has secrets. "
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" Animals weren't put on this earth to entertain us. "
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Us
" 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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Society
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Death
" Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a girl without a secret. "
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Twin
Secret
Like
" 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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Sick
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Age
" 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. "
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Kind
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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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Love
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Create
" I'm grateful for anything that brings me back to Colorado. "
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" Most actors I'm in touch with are struggling financially. "
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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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Then
Fear
Life
" 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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Like
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" 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. "
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You
" I went into dancing but damaged my knees so decided to become an actress instead. "
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" 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. "
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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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