Kyra Sedgwick
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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth19 August 1965
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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.
But when you're in something together, it's very hard to be objective and you're very subjective.
After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.
I was always fraught with guilt, and it's such a waste of an emotion. It keeps you out of the moment of being where you are.
It's not that I don't see myself as hot and sexy. Don't get me wrong. No, it's not that.
I've always been able to let stuff go when I'm done with work.
I think it's important to do smaller films because I think that's where a lot of new things are happening.
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.
I think it's important to do great work.
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.
When I connect to my soul, project it into another # character , and then bring it to the stage or to a film--that has always been for me the great joy of # acting . It's been as if my soul kind of leaps out of my body and is able to be free and dance around.
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.
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.
I'm not going to be remotely funny.