Quotes from Sheryl Lee

Salome's of royal blood. She knows whatever she asks she's going to get.

If something scares me, then I have to do it. My biggest fear in life is fear.

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

Everybody has secrets.

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 know if somebody played me, I'd want to check her out.

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

I just wanted to work with David Lynch.

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.

David Lynch is a very kind and warm-hearted man. I really think he's brilliant.

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.

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 don't go to regular music festivals because I tend to run in the opposite direction wherever there's big crowds.

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.

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

Society has a fascination with death.

For some weird reason, people have a fascination with Laura Palmer.

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.

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.

My biggest fear in life is fear.

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.

Because Laura Palmer was dead... there was always this strange sense that people were seeing a ghost when they would see me.

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.

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