Sheryl Lee Quotes

I have a hard time sometimes watching my own work.

We know that creative people have all sorts of demons.

Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.

When I do things that aren't very good, I'm worse as an actor. I don't know what I pick up - but it's something not very nice.

It's really hard to watch yourself.

When you make a heavy record, there should be a point where you say you don't want to share it, but then maybe you come around.

I am quite an insecure person, and I think that, like any director, if I'm asked about my vision for a piece, I feel very vulnerable.

One thing I learned about that I always knew about myself - that I always been afraid of myself.

Your art is most alive and dangerous when you use it against yourself. That's why I pick at my scabs.

I don't mind people liking or not liking me. If you make something and then in the back of your mind you think it could have been a bit better, that can hurt a bit.

A fitting room to me has always been like a confessional ... where my body and my contrition take up the entire room.

If you stop your creative process every time you think you need to cheer yourself up, or rid yourself of emotional conflicts, your life will be over before you can create anything of any real significance.

Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.

The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.

My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings

I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

The 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn't have a lot of confidence in what I was doing.

When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create go through something like this. You willfully loosen some of the inner straps that hold your core together.

I internalize everything, keep everything inside. I'm not used to spilling my guts, and when you have to do that on film to make a point, it's hard. It's rough. I don't think it's as easy as people think.

Like anybody, you have moments when you question yourself and you're insecure.

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It... keeps us honest.

Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart.

It's tough being me.