When certain doors opened around 'Twin Peaks,' I wasn't interested in walking through them. Now I just feel like I'm more open to life. I have two children. My life is not dependent on the business in that way.
— Sherilyn Fenn
I'm in a space of surrendering and being open and seeing. It's a good place to be - the only place to be.
Sometimes I'm like Dory from 'Finding Nemo.' I can't remember facts.
There will only ever be one Prince.
I'm a walking contradiction. I am funny that way.
I'm absolutely an Elizabeth Taylor fan!
Having my son, it's such a sense of completion as a woman; it's put me at peace.
I began to use my sensitivity. And I realized I wasn't weird because I cried a lot.
I hope maybe somehow I won't be in this business all my life, and I won't be one of those women that's trying to, you know, save what she looks like... My work is about something completely different. It's about what's inside.
It's one thing to play a character that's fictitious - it's quite another to play somebody that is alive and well.
I didn't want to do some trivial, lame, trite, sweetie-pie, 'How thin can I be?' role.
I'm sure 'Boxing Helena' will eclipse 'Twin Peaks' and Audrey Home for me. If people here go see it.
Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.
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.
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!
It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic.
I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.
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. It's so nice not to worry about myself anymore. I only worry about my children.
If you're a young woman in Hollywood, then they want you to look a certain way and paint you in this and that.
I loved doing 'Gilmore Girls.' I love Amy Sherman-Palladino. I'd do anything with her.
Prince inspired me. He changed my life. I will miss him greatly.
Every time I think I'd want a huge, huge career, I realize I'd go crazy under that kind of scrutiny.
I like people that are real people. Real people are broad; they make mistakes.
I don't get back to Michigan nearly as much as I'd like to.
It was just a fairly normal high school existence, riding our bikes around and hanging out in parks and down in the village.
I've worked with some people that just spent hours and hours and hours in the mirror, and just so much importance is based on that. And I do find that sad.
I'm very strong and very confident.
I moved to L.A. when I was 17 and started making movies six months later.
As for 'Twin Peaks,' I'm happy to have been a part of something that was a success. The only time I was concerned was during the second season when it started to lose its focus, and I was thinking, 'What if I get stuck here for five years? I would go crazy.'
When I read the script, I was like, Hello, woman in a box. I had to explore that to the end.
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.
My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable.
It's completely different to work with a woman that is my age, maybe younger.
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.
The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it's nothing. They're wrong.
Those 'Airplane!' type of movies, they've never been my cup of tea.
On screen chemistry can be very different from off screen chemistry.
For many years, I didn't feel I'd find anything that I'd like as much as 'Twin Peaks.'
I gained 50 pounds when I was carrying my baby.
When I was little, I didn't have dreams to be an actress or a star; I wanted to be a mom, have a house and a picket fence.
I'm still just a loud-mouth girl from Michigan. I thought I might've grown out of that, but people are always reminding me that I haven't.
Yes, I can do the cherry stem trick. All girls in my high school could do it.
I've always been aware of the emphasis on beauty in Hollywood, and I think that as one does get older, it can be scary.
I've had a very specific path over the years. Sometimes they're not all we want them to be, but they create who we are.
I wasn't into going to college for four years and that whole dorm thing. I had such an aversion to it. It's an extended vacation, isn't it?
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.
We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon.
The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense.
Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do.
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.
