Quotes by Kyra Sedgwick

About Kyra Sedgwick:

Kyra Minturn Sedgwick is an American actress and producer. She is best known for her starring role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the TNT crime drama The Closer. Sedgwick's role in the series won her a Golden Globe Award in 2007 and an Emmy Award in 2010. The series ended on August 13, 2012, following the completion of its seventh season.
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It's not always thankless. Let's face it - it's not always thankless. I've gotten a lot of really great recognition and I've worked with amazing people.

Kyra Sedgwick

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

Kyra Sedgwick

You know, I grew up with brothers so I'm used to being the only girl.

Kyra Sedgwick

Whether it be in a small movie or a big movie, I would always be attracted to this role.

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Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.

Kyra Sedgwick

It's not that I don't see myself as hot and sexy. Don't get me wrong. No, it's not that.

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I was very young when we got married and I don't know why it worked out like it did or how I was smart enough to know that this was the right guy, but somehow I got lucky.

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I think that certainly my choices empower me.

Kyra Sedgwick

I think it's important to do smaller films because I think that's where a lot of new things are happening.

Kyra Sedgwick

I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

Kyra Sedgwick

I don't know if you're married, but sometimes there are times where one is really together with their partner. And then there are times when you're both just in your own thing, but you're there together.

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I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

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

Kyra Sedgwick

Sometimes when you do a part, the wall between you and the characters can be very porous. You can sort of move in and out of your character's persona and being. And that just couldn't happen on this one because of working with him.

Kyra Sedgwick

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.

Kyra Sedgwick

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

Kyra Sedgwick

But when you're in something together, it's very hard to be objective and you're very subjective.

Kyra Sedgwick

Ultimately, you know, I'm a grown-up, I've been in this business a long time. I've got kids. I've got to do my stuff. But I also need to keep it there so I can bring it up again the next day at work or whatever.

Kyra Sedgwick

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

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I think it's important to do great work.

Kyra Sedgwick

Author Bio

  • NameKyra Sedgwick
  • Descriptionactress from the United States
  • BornAugust 19, 1965
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Television Actor; Film Actor