Kyra Sedgwick Quotes

I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that’s okay.

I’m not going to be remotely funny.

While it is challenging working with a kid, because they’re so of the moment all the time. My acting style is to try to take something from my life that the character can relate to and that I can relate the character to.

I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn’t do them. And I don’t want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.

It’s that I’m 39. I feel hot and sexy, actually… I feel it inside myself. I don’t feel dried up and tired and no longer interested in sex is what I’m trying to say.

Compassion is very important, especially right now in America. We all need to strive as human beings to understand each other and ourselves better.

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I’m blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

I can’t get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.

Our family adopted Paulie from a shelter as an 8-week-old puppy. We’ve had him for 11 years, and I think it was valuable for the kids to learn to be responsible for a pet. It’s a wonderful thing for families – the unconditional love you get from a pet is something you carry with you for the rest of your life.

I’ve always been able to let stuff go when I’m done with work.

Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.

I think that women as a group are so powerful. I still don’t think we are able to embrace our power well enough yet. We think we live in a man’s world and we have to follow their rules, and yet, we’re so different, and our rules are so different. I wish that we could come together more as a political force. If women ran the world, I don’t believe that there would be war. I really don’t…. We understand the bigger picture. We understand our impact on the environment, on the world. We understand the generations that will go after us because we gave birth to them.