Sherilyn Fenn

“Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.”

“I'm very strong and very confident.”

“I don't get back to Michigan nearly as much as I'd like to.”

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

“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.”

“I don't want my body to look like a man's. I just want to tone my body.”

“Prince inspired me. He changed my life. I will miss him greatly.”

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

“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.”

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

“There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome.”

“I wasn't into going to college for four years and that whole dorm thing. I had such an aversion to it. It's an extended vacation, isn't it?”

“It's one thing to play a character that's fictitious - it's quite another to play somebody that is alive and well.”

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

“I don't flirt and I don't play the people that I'm meeting with.”

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

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

“Now I know why guys like to hug girls. You guys just want to cop a feel. I can't believe that I've fallen for it all these years!”

“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.”