Quotes from Sheryl Lee

In some ways, my naivete saved me.

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.'

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.

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.

It's still difficult for me to watch my work.

Most actors I'm in touch with are struggling financially.

It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.

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.

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?

I loved 'Blue Velvet.'

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.

Animals weren't put on this earth to entertain us.

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.