Sheryl Lee

“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.”

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

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

“Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a girl without a secret.”

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

“People are doing so many incredible, inspiring, interesting things all over this country, and I think that's where the hope is - seeing how innovative and creative people can be.”

“I was the kind of kid, I'd sit in the back row of the class with my head practically under the desk. I was incredibly afraid of people and very shy.”

“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.”

“I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.”

“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 just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done.”

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

“In some ways, my naivete saved 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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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 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.”

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