Top 35 Sherilyn Fenn Quotes

I’m contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I’ve been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I’m really tired of it. I’m continually uninspired by what’s being sent to me. Even by huge films that they’re doing there. They’re just awful.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I’m very strong and very confident.

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

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 loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with.

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

For many years, I didn’t feel I’d find anything that I’d like as much as ‘Twin Peaks.’

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.

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

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.

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

I love to dance. But I don’t like being up in front of tons of people. I didn’t have the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. So it wasn’t something I ever seriously considered.

I’ve worked with some people that just spent hours and hours and hours in the mirror, and just so much importance is based on that. And I do find that sad.

I don’t flirt and I don’t play the people that I’m meeting with.

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

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

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 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?

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

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

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.

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

I can sing, but my voice is untrained. I’d like to do a musical someday.

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

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

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.

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.