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

Kyra Sedgwick

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Kyra Sedgwick
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: August 19
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Film Producer
Television Actor
Voice Actor
New York City
New York
Kyra Minturn Sedgwick
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Intense
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Shame

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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.
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I think that certainly my choices empower me.
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I'm not going to be remotely funny.
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I've always been able to let stuff go when I'm done with work.
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I think it's important to do great work.
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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.
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Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.
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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.
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Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.
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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.
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Global climate change is real. The legislative branch of our government is our last line of defense against pollution which is why I am so grateful to have the NRDC making our voice heard.
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Compassion is very important, especially right now in America. We all need to strive as human beings to understand each other and ourselves better.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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All humans need love, attention, and appreciation, and those can be very female traits. I feel like they should be male and female traits, but I think that they are more easily attributed to women.
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I feel that our planet is in peril and that creating a sustainable planet for my children and my children's children is the most important thing I can do in this lifetime.
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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.
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