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Sheryl Lee
American
Actor
About the author
The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.
Sheryl Lee,
American
Actor
#Power
My biggest fear in life is fear.
Sheryl Lee,
American
Actor
#Life
#Fear
It's still difficult for me to watch my work.
Sheryl Lee,
American
Actor
#Work
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.
Sheryl Lee,
American
Actor
#Time
#People
#First
#Strangers
#Clothes
#Bed
I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid.
Sheryl Lee,
American
Actor
#Want
#Love
#Play
If something scares me, then I have to do it.
Sheryl Lee,
American
Actor
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.
Sheryl Lee,
American
Actor
#Talk
#Love
#People
#Act
#Flying
#Sex
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.
Sheryl Lee,
American
Actor
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.
Sheryl Lee,
American
Actor
#Life
#Work
#Past
#Thought
#Questioning
I highly recommend tantric sex workshops.
Sheryl Lee,
American
Actor
#Sex
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.
Sheryl Lee,
American
Actor
#Will
But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.
Sheryl Lee,
American
Actor
#Character
Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away.
Sheryl Lee,
American
Actor
#Poor
#Mother
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.
Sheryl Lee,
American
Actor
#Love
#Heart
#Thought
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.
Sheryl Lee,
American
Actor
#Now
#Father
#Sister
I remembered their songs but I had never owned a Beatles album.
Sheryl Lee,
American
Actor
#Songs