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.”

“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.”

“Yes, I can do the cherry stem trick. All girls in my high school could do it.”

“I'm absolutely an Elizabeth Taylor fan!”

“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.”

“Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot.”

“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.”

“Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.”

“I gained 50 pounds when I was carrying my baby.”

“There will only ever be one Prince.”

“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 like people that are real people. Real people are broad; they make mistakes.”

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

“When I read the script, I was like, Hello, woman in a box. I had to explore that to the end.”

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

“The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it's nothing. They're wrong.”

“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've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.”

“Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do.”

“It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic.”