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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 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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Little

Doing

" I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid. "

" I have a thing about angels. I believe in them. I feel like I have a guardian angel. I think everybody has one. "

" The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us. "

" 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. "

" If something scares me, then I have to do it. My biggest fear in life is fear. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I did a few independent films, but there is no money in them. "

" Most actors I'm in touch with are struggling financially. "

" I went into dancing but damaged my knees so decided to become an actress instead. "

" 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. "

" I don't go to regular music festivals because I tend to run in the opposite direction wherever there's big crowds. "

" 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. "

" I loved 'Blue Velvet.' "

" 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. "

Sheryl Lee

Heart

Love

" For some weird reason, people have a fascination with Laura Palmer. "

" It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me. "

Sheryl Lee

Vampire

" If something scares me, then I have to do it. "

" 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? "

Sheryl Lee

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Character

" I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album. "

" 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 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. "

" People don't set out being bad. They have deep pain inside. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character. "

" I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one. "

" In some ways, my naivete saved me. "

Sheryl Lee

Ways

Naivete

" 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. "