Zitat des Tages von Sheryl Lee:
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don't think death is a negative thing at all. I think it can be very positive.
I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.
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.
I have a thing about angels. I believe in them. I feel like I have a guardian angel. I think everybody has one.
It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.
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.
It's still difficult for me to watch my work.
In some ways, my naivete saved me.
David Lynch is a very kind and warm-hearted man. I really think he's brilliant.
The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.
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?
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 would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid.
My biggest fear in life is fear.
You'll read a script, and it'll grab me, or it won't.
I don't go to regular music festivals because I tend to run in the opposite direction wherever there's big crowds.
But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.
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.
If something scares me, then I have to do it.
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.
I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album.
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.
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.'
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.
For some weird reason, people have a fascination with Laura Palmer.
I went into dancing but damaged my knees so decided to become an actress instead.
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 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.
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.
Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a girl without a secret.
Most actors I'm in touch with are struggling financially.
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?
