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Sherilyn Fenn

Profession : Actress

Birth : February 1, 1965

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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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!

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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As for 'Twin Peaks,' I'm happy to have been a part of something that was a success. The only time I was concerned was during the second season when it started to lose its focus, and I was thinking, 'What if I get stuck here for five years? I would go crazy.'

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