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

—  Sherilyn Fenn

Sherilyn Fenn, quoted in "Five Feet of Heaven in a Ponytail", by Simon Banner. Premiere (UK). July 1993. p. 26-29.
on starring in Boxing Helena.

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