Sherilyn Fenn Quotes

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.

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

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 remember my agent at the time called me and was like, "I've got it! I've found it! I've found your role!" I worked my ass off to get that role, because I think me and three or four other girls tested for it. But it was a great time.

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.

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.

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

That was cool, getting to work with Ryan Gosling. I knew he was going to be a huge star after I saw him in that Showtime thing that he did when he was really young [The Believer]. I think the most fun thing about that was I'd never seen somebody that had so many questions about the specifics of everything: where you ate, how much you ate, how much you drank. He's very special.

I don't know why people see the things that they do. I wouldn't pay to see them, they don't touch me or move me in any way.

I'm not big with an audience; I get very nervous.

I like taking risks and I decided to put every bit of me into the role.

I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.

Boxing Helena was something that I think was pretty cool, but people judged it without even having seen it. It's not perfect, but I think for the story that we were trying to tell, it turned out pretty good. What it signified was really powerful to me: how society puts us in boxes one way or another.

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

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

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'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.

The studios have their list of five actresses and whether they're right or wrong for a role doesn't matter. It's how much money their last movie made.

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

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

I said, "Oh well, I'll act." I started to study, but I didn't know what I was doing, and I don't know that I was taking it very seriously then.

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

Playing Elizabeth Taylor was probably the hardest job I've ever done.

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.

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

They're pushing me to do Howard. Howard's a trip. My friend made me watch the Lesbian Love Connection and I was like, Oh God, get me out of here!

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.

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

In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique.

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?