After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.
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.
But when you're in something together, it's very hard to be objective and you're very subjective.
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.
Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.
Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's not really interesting for me.
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.
I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay.
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.
I don't know, if I were a boss, how I'd feel about employees getting involved, because it can get really complicated.
I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.
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 optioned a book and we got the script written, and he wants to direct it. It's a very dark movie so we'll see if it gets made.
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 think it's important to do great work.
I think it's important to do smaller films because I think that's where a lot of new things are happening.
I think Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks to me are the only people who could work over and over again together and it work.
I think that certainly my choices empower me.
I think we have a very real marriage.
I think you have to have the passion behind it, otherwise it's a total waste of time.
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'm in this business and I'm not dumb. It's good to be able to share the wealth a little bit, get a star. It's important.
I've always been able to let stuff go when I'm done with work.
In some ways, as a mother or a parent, everyone can relate to the idea of when you have a child, you birth this child, you feed it, clothe it, shelter it. And as they grow up, you have to let them go out into the world. It's such an unnatural act to let your child walk into the street ultimately.
It makes it all worth it when you are doing a great part and you are really living it, making it real, and then it lives for people on the screen.
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 hard on our kids when we're both away. It's not something that we usually do.
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.
It's not that I don't see myself as hot and sexy. Don't get me wrong. No, it's not that.
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.
Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.
Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies.
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.
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.
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.
Whether it be in a small movie or a big movie, I would always be attracted to this role.
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.
Yes, I have something else that I produced and he directed. We have something else that we're trying to get off the ground that we have a script for.
You know, I grew up with brothers so I'm used to being the only girl.
In 2005, Kyra was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her role in Cavedweller (2004).
Kyra is cousin to Edie Sedgwick, an actress who appeared in films attributed to Andy Warhol.
Kyra and her husband
In 2005, Kyra was nominated for a Golden Satellite Award in the category of "Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Drama" for her role in the movie, The Woodsman (2004).
In 2005, Kyra was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in the category of "Best Female Lead" for her role in Cavedweller (2004).
In 1997, Kyra and co-star
In 1996, Kyra was nominated for "Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture" by the American Comedy Awards for her role in Something To Talk About (1995).
In 1994, Kyra was nominated for "Best Supporting Actress" for her role in the film, Heart And Souls (1993) by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films.
TNT discovered Kyra (for
Kyra and Kevin Bacon met on the set of TV movie Lemon Sky.
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