"A year in Rome shooting the notorious Cleopatra sounds the most dramatic and fun." - Sherilyn Fenn
"All people can sense if somebody's being honest or not. Have the courage to go inside and illuminate and reveal things about yourself." - Sherilyn Fenn
"At the very least, my tastes are out of the ordinary." - Sherilyn Fenn
"Audrey was slated to survive everything-always. Audrey almost had her own spin-off series, but it wasn't something that I wanted to do." - Sherilyn Fenn
"Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot." - Sherilyn Fenn
"Blue Velvet... freaked me out completely! It was one of the more disturbing films I've ever seen." - Sherilyn Fenn
"Cheers was frightening, because I was like 19, and I think I had two lines. This big, live audience: I was so afraid, it was awful. But Friends was Friends was fun, but I came out with the feeling that I'm just not a sitcom actress." - Sherilyn Fenn
"David Lynch's films are always very long. That's just David loving the projects that he's involved in. I wasn't in the Twin Peaks film very much, but everything that they shot of mine was in there." - Sherilyn Fenn
"David really tapped into that suburban paranoia thing that pervades the Northwest that America can identify with even if they can't quite articulate it." - Sherilyn Fenn
"Don't bring up The Wraith! It wasn't a good movie. And someone even got killed when we were making it and someone else got paralysed, so it was not good. That was with Charlie Sheen." - Sherilyn Fenn
"Everyone exhibits destructive behavior in one way or another: It can be cigarettes, it could be food, it could be drugs, alcohol, bad men... I wanted to explore that element of a character. And Billie in Rude Awakening laughs her way through all of it." - Sherilyn Fenn
"Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project." - Sherilyn Fenn
"Harrison Ford... I love him. He's a man's man." - Sherilyn Fenn
"I brought my make-up artist from the States-so one friend along for the ride. But no complaints. I'm really having a good time! The Isle of Man is a little bit difficult, just because I have a three and a half year old and there's not much to do here for him." - Sherilyn Fenn
"I can sing, but my voice is untrained. I'd like to do a musical someday." - Sherilyn Fenn
"I didn't have the picket fence childhood, so I always wanted that stability. I don't talk much about that, though, because it hurts my mom." - Sherilyn Fenn
"I do Kundalini yoga. You keep your eyes closed through almost all of it, so you're not competing with other people. You're just competing with yourself as you try to get past your mind." - Sherilyn Fenn
"I don't flirt and I don't play the people that I'm meeting with." - Sherilyn Fenn
"I don't know how to sit there and pretend I love something when I don't-I'm not that good of an actress! If something inspires me, I can talk about it." - Sherilyn Fenn
"I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes." - Sherilyn Fenn
"I don't want my body to look like a man's. I just want to tone my body." - Sherilyn Fenn
"I got nominations for Twin Peaks-Emmys and a Golden Globe-and as a result of that, the doors went swinging open. I was meeting with Dustin Hoffman, I was meeting with top people." - Sherilyn Fenn
"I like all kinds of music. I like Kate Bush, Marvin Gaye, Mozart, Vivaldi." - Sherilyn Fenn
"I liked Boxing Helena. I think it was an almost impossible story to tell. Although it has some flaws, I think it's neat, it's a beautiful story." - Sherilyn Fenn
"I love to dance. But I don't like being up in front of tons of people. I didn't have the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. So it wasn't something I ever seriously considered." - Sherilyn Fenn
"I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with." - Sherilyn Fenn
"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?" - Sherilyn Fenn
"I related to the concept of a woman being in a box. She was the most specifically written character that I had played. She intimidated me when I read it, and I knew that it would be an incredible challenge, sort of an inward journey." - Sherilyn Fenn
"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." - Sherilyn Fenn
"I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen." - Sherilyn Fenn
"I thought the closest Elizabeth ever came to revealing herself was Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and she lost herself in that role. It was cathartic for her to do that in a lot of ways, to let herself be that wild and that ugly and unattractive." - Sherilyn Fenn
"I used to steal candy and gum in stores. I remember getting caught stealing very young. But then I just got better. In middle school, I started to steal clothes. One time there was a horrible spree and then we never did it again!" - Sherilyn Fenn
"I want to learn to laugh and smile more. My acting has always been about doing things that I can grow from, that say something, or should be heard." - Sherilyn Fenn
"I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a stewardess. Then I wanted to cut hair! But my biggest dream when I was young was to have the perfect home and the picket fence, and babies crawling around, and I'd be cooking in the kitchen." - Sherilyn Fenn
"I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening." - Sherilyn Fenn
"I was extremely disappointed in the way the second season got off track... it was something that I chose not to be a part of." - Sherilyn Fenn
"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." - Sherilyn Fenn
"I wish I looked like Elizabeth Taylor, and with the technicians doing what they do best, I'm sure we can at least get a resemblance, however slight. It would be arrogant to assume that I look like someone who has been pegged as one of the most beautiful women in the world!" - Sherilyn Fenn
"I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful." - Sherilyn Fenn
"I'm proud of Of Mice and Men, I'm proud of Ruby, I'm proud of The Liz Taylor Story." - Sherilyn Fenn
"I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell." - Sherilyn Fenn
"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." - Sherilyn Fenn
"In Twin Peaks he rewrites this entire scene and has me dance in the middle of the room for like three minutes. Then you see it and with the music, he's set this whole world up, this whole mood." - Sherilyn Fenn
"It's completely different to work with a woman that is my age, maybe younger." - Sherilyn Fenn
"It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic." - Sherilyn Fenn
"It's one thing to play a character who is fictitious. It's another thing to fill the shoes of, as you put it, a living legend." - Sherilyn Fenn
"It's the simple fact of you meet somebody, and you either connect or you don't. If a director makes me feel unsafe, and I don't like their energy, there's no way I'm going to sit there and schmooze." - Sherilyn Fenn
"Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do." - Sherilyn Fenn
"John F. Kennedy Jr.does yoga too!" - Sherilyn Fenn
"Love Life and Just Write are very small films, very small. It's very hard for those kinds of films to bust out." - Sherilyn Fenn
"Me and other kids would re-enact movies in my friend's basement. I remember one specifically, The Towering Inferno. I played Faye Dunaway, and I wore curtains as my evening gown. The cutest boy in the neighborhood played Paul Newman." - Sherilyn Fenn
"My first film was a thing called Out of Control where I just played this young girl. I had a small role. We shot it in Dubrovnik in Yugoslavia." - Sherilyn Fenn
"My job as an actor is to show life, and fortunately relationships between men and women are a beautiful, positive part of life." - Sherilyn Fenn
"My mother had met an agent who had spent some time in our house and kept encouraging me. I figured: why not? It looks fun." - Sherilyn Fenn
"My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable." - Sherilyn Fenn
"Now I know why guys like to hug girls. You guys just want to cop a feel. I can't believe that I've fallen for it all these years!" - Sherilyn Fenn
"On the surface things seem all one way, this nice little small town. But underneath there's a lot of dirt and sadness and deprivation. Two girls in plaid skirts and sweaters, smoking cigarettes and talking about murder in the girl's bathroom! That's my kind of movie!" - Sherilyn Fenn
"The big corporate studio things, I'm not necessarily considered for because I haven't been in a studio film. MGM was the biggest studio that I worked with. You get hired, regardless of if you're right or wrong for the role, if you have made a movie that made so much money." - Sherilyn Fenn
"The controversy with Kim Basinger had nothing to do with me. I have no connection with her whatsoever." - Sherilyn Fenn
"The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense." - Sherilyn Fenn
"The hard part about it was that you could be shooting for eight months and you only lived two days in the life of Twin Peaks. It was like: aargh!" - Sherilyn Fenn
"The Liz Taylor Story was a horrible shoot. It was six-day weeks, 15-16 hour days. It was a huge hair and make-up show. I had two weeks to learn a dialect and I was doing wardrobe fittings in between. I lost so much weight. I was really sick." - Sherilyn Fenn
"There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome." - Sherilyn Fenn
"They have a way of putting you in a category. I wasn't into playing the Hollywood game. I only responded to certain things." - Sherilyn Fenn
"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!" - Sherilyn Fenn
"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." - Sherilyn Fenn
"We all have a way of reachingfor something lower rather than something to build us up. People in life aren't perfect. Everybody has a dark side, a negative side that's not easy to be around." - Sherilyn Fenn
"We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon." - Sherilyn Fenn
"When I read the script, I was like, Hello, woman in a box. I had to explore that to the end." - Sherilyn Fenn
"When I was a kid I saw Kansas City Bomber, and I remembered thinking how beautiful and how strong Raquel Welch's character was. So I went home and dressed up my Barbie like her character." - Sherilyn Fenn
"When you're in Hollywood it seems like that's all there is in terms of the business." - Sherilyn Fenn
"Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package." - Sherilyn Fenn
"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." - Sherilyn Fenn
