In some ways, my naivete saved me.
— Sheryl Lee
Media is a powerful thing, and you see it with so many actors, where one role that brings them a lot of attention is sort of how they get defined.
I want to watch my son grow up. I want to spend time with my family. There's a lot of the world that I want to see and experience.
I had a little house, and I sold that and moved into a condo, then sold the condo... I kept downsizing and downsizing.
I went into dancing but damaged my knees so decided to become an actress instead.
You'll read a script, and it'll grab me, or it won't.
Because Laura Palmer was dead... there was always this strange sense that people were seeing a ghost when they would see me.
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?
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?
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.
When I was a kid, we played outside until we couldn't see and had to go in. I rode my bicycle and played tag football, kick the can, and hide-and-go-seek.
Salome's of royal blood. She knows whatever she asks she's going to get.
I just wanted to work with David Lynch.
Someday I'd love to come back and start a theater company in Boulder. That would be a dream come true.
Those of us who were on 'Twin Peaks' can very easily make fun of it, but we get along really well, and we have a playful energy together.
If something scares me, then I have to do it. My biggest fear in life is fear.
It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.
I was just this kid from Colorado studying theater, and suddenly I was on a hit TV show.
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.
Most actors I'm in touch with are struggling financially.
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.
I did a few independent films, but there is no money in them.
It doesn't matter whether it's television or films or the theater. I just have to believe in what I'm doing. If I don't believe in it, I won't do it.
Everybody has secrets.
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.
Society has a fascination with death.
I don't go to regular music festivals because I tend to run in the opposite direction wherever there's big crowds.
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.
David Lynch saw my picture in a casting agent's office in Seattle. I got a call to see him, and the rest is history.
I know if somebody played me, I'd want to check her out.
David Lynch is a very kind and warm-hearted man. I really think he's brilliant.
Well, there's two things that happen when people experience something, whether it's a song, a television show, a film, a book or any piece of art. It connects them to a certain part of their life and whatever was going on at that time in their life.
Animals weren't put on this earth to entertain us.
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.
I'm grateful for anything that brings me back to Colorado.
I love being directed, and I feel so grateful to be able to get to work with some of the directors I've worked with.
People always assume that, if you're an actor who's been on anything from which you're recognisable, that you're making all this money, and it's just not true.
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.
I felt guilty about what happened on 'Twin Peaks.' All of a sudden, to have that kind of payoff for doing so little seemed very strange.
People don't set out being bad. They have deep pain inside.
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'm starting to understand why certain people in the entertainment business reach a point where they say, 'I'm not going to do any more interviews.' I definitely understand that.
I don't think death is a negative thing at all. I think it can be very positive.
For some weird reason, people have a fascination with Laura Palmer.
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 loved 'Blue Velvet.'
I have a thing about angels. I believe in them. I feel like I have a guardian angel. I think everybody has one.
From the age of 40, I went through illness for four and a half years. I tried to keep working through it as much as I could, but I was physically not able to do it as much, and if you look sick, it's hard to get a job.
Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a girl without a secret.
I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.
