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

- Sheryl Lee

Beast, Side, Almost, Vampire

My doctor suggested doing some blood tests and immediately discovered that my white blood cell count was low. So then I went through many more tests including bone marrow biopsies until they figured out that I had neutropenia.

- Sheryl Lee

Doing, Through, Some, Suggested

I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks.

- Sheryl Lee

Back, Got, Twin Peaks, Heal

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.

- Sheryl Lee

My Life, Decade, Turned, Introspective

For some weird reason, people have a fascination with Laura Palmer.

- Sheryl Lee

Weird, Some, Fascination, Laura

I had no idea it was going to be like this. People come up to me all the time, but it's never, 'Oh, you're Sheryl Lee.' It's, 'Oh my gosh, you're Laura Palmer.'

- Sheryl Lee

Like, Idea, Going, Laura

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

- Sheryl Lee

Dead, Sense, Always, Laura

I have to be very aware of how I manage my health. I still have relapses if I push myself too hard and my immune system can't handle it.

- Sheryl Lee

Very, Still, Immune, Manage

I don't go to regular music festivals because I tend to run in the opposite direction wherever there's big crowds.

- Sheryl Lee

Big, Go, Festivals, Opposite Direction

People always assume that, if you're an actor who's been on anything from which you're recognisable, that you're making all this money, and it's just not true.

- Sheryl Lee

Always, Been, Which, Recognisable

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.

- Sheryl Lee

Media, Role, Them, Defined

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.

- Sheryl Lee

Deal, Always, Side, Struggle

Most actors I'm in touch with are struggling financially.

- Sheryl Lee

Touch, Most, Struggling, Financially

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.

- Sheryl Lee

Rest, Agent, Saw, Seattle

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.

- Sheryl Lee

Living, Going, Town, Seattle

I highly recommend tantric sex workshops.

- Sheryl Lee

Sex, Workshops, Recommend, Highly

You'll read a script, and it'll grab me, or it won't.

- Sheryl Lee

Me, You, Read, Grab

I have a thing about angels. I believe in them. I feel like I have a guardian angel. I think everybody has one.

- Sheryl Lee

Think, Everybody, I Think, Guardian

From the age of 40, I went through illness for four and a half years. I tried to keep working through it as much as I could, but I was physically not able to do it as much, and if you look sick, it's hard to get a job.

- Sheryl Lee

Sick, Through, Half, Illness

You always hear actresses talk about how unromantic it is to act a love scene or a sex scene - which it is. You're doing it with all these lights on and cameras flying around and people on the set.

- Sheryl Lee

Love, Always, Which, Lights

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.

- Sheryl Lee

Love, Thought, Got, Overwhelming

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.

- Sheryl Lee

Shy, Kind, Very, Row

I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.

- Sheryl Lee

Week, Some, Records, Registered

Those of us who were on 'Twin Peaks' can very easily make fun of it, but we get along really well, and we have a playful energy together.

- Sheryl Lee

Very, Twin Peaks, Peaks, Playful

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

- Sheryl Lee

Like, Twin Peaks, David, Peaks

I felt guilty about what happened on 'Twin Peaks.' All of a sudden, to have that kind of payoff for doing so little seemed very strange.

- Sheryl Lee

Doing, Very, Seemed, Peaks

I'm starting to understand why certain people in the entertainment business reach a point where they say, 'I'm not going to do any more interviews.' I definitely understand that.

- Sheryl Lee

Business, Entertainment, Starting

Everybody has secrets.

- Sheryl Lee

Everybody, Secrets

I loved 'Blue Velvet.'

- Sheryl Lee

Blue, Loved, Velvet

I love directors who aren't going back to the stereotypes, who are helping write and create roles for women that are not in the typical Hollywood box. I'm very, very interested in films that are going outside of stereotypical roles for women.

- Sheryl Lee

Love, Very, Films, Stereotypical

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