Kyra Sedgwick

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

“I've always been able to let stuff go when I'm done with work.”

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

“We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows.”

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

“After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Also everyone's hearts are in the right place when you do a small movie. You're not doing it for the money; you're not doing it for the possibility of an Oscar nomination. You are doing it because you love the material.”

“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 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.”

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

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

“It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role.”

“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.”

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