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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. "
Sheryl Lee
Me
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" If something scares me, then I have to do it. My biggest fear in life is fear. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I just wanted to work with David Lynch. "
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" 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. "
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" Most actors I'm in touch with are struggling financially. "
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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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" 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 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. "
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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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