Sherilyn Fenn Quotes
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Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early 90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.
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I remember my agent at the time called me and was like, "I've got it! I've found it! I've found your role!" I worked my ass off to get that role, because I think me and three or four other girls tested for it. But it was a great time.
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You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait... It felt weird to me. But it's interesting and the energy is almost like theatre, I suppose, with all the people there
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My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable.
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I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?
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I love to dance. But I don't like being up in front of tons of people. I didn't have that in me to do it, the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. If there's a lot of people on a set, I get nervous. So music just wasn't something I ever seriously considered.
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Talking to fans has really blown my mind. It's made me so happy to know my work has touched people.
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They're pushing me to do Howard. Howard's a trip. My friend made me watch the Lesbian Love Connection and I was like, Oh God, get me out of here!
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I'm in a space of surrendering and being open and seeing. It's a good place to be - the only place to be.
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In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique
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My gift to my children would be from me to be as honest and true to myself as an artist, and put that out there to the best of my ability.
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It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic.
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The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense.
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I don't flirt and I don't play the people that I'm meeting with.
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The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom.
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I don't go to parties and all that. I don't think being seen or being in the right place is going to make me a better actress. I care about my work and try to do what's right in my heart.
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Life is really beautiful.
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I'd moved to L.A. with my mother when I was 17 or 18. She loved show business and I was young enough that I had no idea what I wanted to do.
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I see people giving me looks because I'm so opinionated. That hurts my feelings, but at the end of the day I have to live with me and respect myself. And I've done enough things in my life where I was confused and didn't respect myself that I will not do it any more.
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Boxing Helena was something that I think was pretty cool, but people judged it without even having seen it. It's not perfect, but I think for the story that we were trying to tell, it turned out pretty good. What it signified was really powerful to me: how society puts us in boxes one way or another.
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I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it
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Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot.
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At the very least, my tastes are out of the ordinary.
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Being a mother for me was like, "Oh, this is what I've been looking for my whole life." This brings me a sense of completion. I never knew I would love this deeply.
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Harrison Ford... I love him. He's a man's man.
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It's completely different to work with a woman that is my age, maybe younger.
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I'm honest. I say what I feel. I try to be tactful, but I can't not say what I feel. I have a really big problem with that.
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I said, "Oh well, I'll act." I started to study, but I didn't know what I was doing, and I don't know that I was taking it very seriously then.
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The world has certain rules - Hollywood has certain rules - but it doesn't mean you have to play by them, and I don't, or I'd be a miserable person.
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I don't want my body to look like a man's. I just want to tone my body.
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