Top 40 Sherilyn Fenn Quotes

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

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 gained 50 pounds when I was carrying my baby.

Harrison Ford… I love him. He’s a man’s man.

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’m in a space of surrendering and being open and seeing. It’s a good place to be – the only place to be.

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

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’m absolutely an Elizabeth Taylor fan!

I loved doing ‘Gilmore Girls.’ I love Amy Sherman-Palladino. I’d do anything with her.

My mother‘s been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It’s remarkable.

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

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?

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

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.

It’s one thing to play a character that’s fictitious – it’s quite another to play somebody that is alive and well.

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

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

I didn’t want to do some trivial, lame, trite, sweetie-pie, ‘How thin can I be?’ role.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I’m sure ‘Boxing Helena’ will eclipse ‘Twin Peaks‘ and Audrey Home for me. If people here go see it.

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

It’s completely different to work with a woman that is my age, maybe younger.

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

I’ve had a very specific path over the years. Sometimes they’re not all we want them to be, but they create who we are.

It was just a fairly normal high school existence, riding our bikes around and hanging out in parks and down in the village.

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 don’t want my body to look like a man’s. I just want to tone my body.

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!

I don’t get back to Michigan nearly as much as I’d like to.

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

I moved to L.A. when I was 17 and started making movies six months later.

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?