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.Collection: Humor
I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.Collection: Sad
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.Collection: Trust
I'm sure 'Boxing Helena' will eclipse 'Twin Peaks' and Audrey Home for me. If people here go see it.
Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot.
On screen chemistry can be very different from off screen chemistry.
Yes, I can do the cherry stem trick. All girls in my high school could do it.
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!
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?
At the very least, my tastes are out of the ordinary.
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.
Harrison Ford... I love him. He's a man's man.
I can sing, but my voice is untrained. I'd like to do a musical someday.
I don't flirt and I don't play the people that I'm meeting with.
I don't want my body to look like a man's. I just want to tone my body.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening.
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.
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.
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.
It's completely different to work with a woman that is my age, maybe younger.
It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic.
Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do.
My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable.
The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense.
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.
We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon.
When I read the script, I was like, Hello, woman in a box. I had to explore that to the end.
Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.
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.
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.'
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?
I moved to L.A. when I was 17 and started making movies six months later.
I didn't want to do some trivial, lame, trite, sweetie-pie, 'How thin can I be?' role.
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'm very strong and very confident.
It's one thing to play a character that's fictitious - it's quite another to play somebody that is alive and well.
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 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 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 was just a fairly normal high school existence, riding our bikes around and hanging out in parks and down in the village.
I began to use my sensitivity. And I realized I wasn't weird because I cried a lot.
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.
I don't get back to Michigan nearly as much as I'd like to.
Having my son, it's such a sense of completion as a woman; it's put me at peace.
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 like people that are real people. Real people are broad; they make mistakes.