Sheryl Lee Quotes (19 Quotes)

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

I highly recommend tantric sex workshops.

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.

My biggest fear in life is fear.

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.

But ultimately what's important to me is whether or not I grow as a human being during the process. What happens after that is in God's hands.

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

It's still difficult for me to watch my work.

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.

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.

Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away.

I was in Seattle and I wanted nothing more than to act, but I was so terrified of it that I couldn't even get myself to an audition. It was miserable.

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.

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

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.

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

I never really thought of Laura as sexual because she's a victim of abuse. Sex and love have completely different meanings for her.

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.

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