Quotes from Sherilyn Fenn

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.

Every time I think I'd want a huge, huge career, I realize I'd go crazy under that kind of scrutiny.

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 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.

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.

On screen chemistry can be very different from off screen chemistry.

The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense.

The studios have their list of five actresses and whether they're right or wrong for a role doesn't matter. It's how much money their last movie made.

It was just this sudden call like it was an emergency. "Quick! You have to go do this... because it's Friends!" I was just, "Oh, my God, okay!"

I'm in a space of surrendering and being open and seeing. It's a good place to be - the only place to be.

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?

Having my son, it's such a sense of completion as a woman; it's put me at peace.

Being a mother for me was like, 'Oh, this is what I've been looking for my whole life.' This brings me a sense of completion. I never knew I would love this deeply. It's so nice not to worry about myself anymore. I only worry about my children.

I'm a walking contradiction. I am funny that way.

I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening.

I began to use my sensitivity. And I realized I wasn't weird because I cried a lot.

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.

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.

At the very least, my tastes are out of the ordinary.

I'm absolutely an Elizabeth Taylor fan!

Those 'Airplane!' type of movies, they've never been my cup of tea.

We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon

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.'

Sometimes I'm like Dory from 'Finding Nemo.' I can't remember facts.