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For me acting is pretending. It's illuminating my human struggle - trying to grow and have the courage to be filmed while figuring things out.

Sherilyn Fenn

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Sherilyn Fenn
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: February 1
Actor
Actress
Detroit
Michigan
Sheryl Ann Fenn
Grow
Struggle
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Human
Illuminating
Humans
Figuring
Trying
Pretending
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Playing Elizabeth Taylor was probably the hardest job I've ever done.
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My gift to my children would be from me to be as honest and true to myself as an artist, and put that out there to the best of my ability.
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If you're a young woman in Hollywood, then they want you to look a certain way and paint you in this and that. To this day, it's hard to find people like us, who want to kind of find deep truths, not just skirt above the top of it.
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It's so nice not to worry about myself anymore. I only worry about my children.
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I'm in a space of surrendering and being open and seeing. It's a good place to be - the only place to be.
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Now I just feel like I'm more open to life. I have two children.
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It's completely different to work with a woman that is my age, maybe younger.
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People who think they know me would be surprised that my whole life doesn't revolve around sex.
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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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Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot.
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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.
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I love to dance. But I don't like being up in front of tons of people. I didn't have that in me to do it, the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. If there's a lot of people on a set, I get nervous. So music just wasn't something I ever seriously considered.
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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.
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Even if your work touches one person, that's an amazing gift.
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I'd moved to L.A. with my mother when I was 17 or 18. She loved show business and I was young enough that I had no idea what I wanted to do.
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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.
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I see people giving me looks because I'm so opinionated. That hurts my feelings, but at the end of the day I have to live with me and respect myself. And I've done enough things in my life where I was confused and didn't respect myself that I will not do it any more.
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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.
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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
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I can sing, but my voice is untrained. Id like to do a musical someday.
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