Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes

You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses.

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• Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

  

  Gary Snyder
  • Responsibility
  • Find
  • Place

• Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Responsibility
  • Own
  • Blame

• When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Time
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Choices

• Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Work
  • Control
  • Support

• I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Political

• Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Organization

• All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Political
  • Respect
  • Stop

• Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Men
  • Women
  • Responsibility

• People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibility to not only cook dinner for large groups of people suddenly, but to serve things that are fussy or fancy or formal. And I don't think that's what anybody really wants, especially if you're not good at it.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Good
  • Responsibility

• Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Business
  • Fashion
  • Responsibility

• We lost our minds in the '80s and '90s; we really as a society just felt that everyone could only care about themselves. There was no responsibility to discuss what's going on in your town, your state, your nation. And it was a blast, it was really fun, but it doesn't work.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Society

• At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Responsibility
  • Yourself

• You take responsibility for us all. Without ever waiting to be told.So do all good people. That's what it means to be a good person.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Good
  • Responsibility

• Just because you are lucky does not mean you make good choices.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Good
  • Choices

• History has placed a tremendous responsibility on the shoulders of this country's leadership, namely the responsibility of moving our country away from the current course of conflict and confrontation... The hope of millions of South Africans is fixed on us. The future of southern Africa depends on us. We dare not waver or fail.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Country
  • History
  • Hope

• I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • Done
  • Choices

• The ideal feminist world shouldn't be one where women suppress their human instincts for attention and desire. We shouldn't be weighed down with the responsibility of explaining our every move. We shouldn't have to apologize for wanting attention, either. We don't owe anyone an explanation.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • World
  • Women
  • Attention

• My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Door
  • Grandmother
  • Security System

• As soon as I started reading, I found myself drawn to fictional character's homes as much as I was to the characters themselves.

  

  Mary Kay Andrews
  • Character
  • Reading

• I don't play favorites with people. My basic philosophy is that the only way to make the world a better place is by bringing something beautiful to every single person you run into at every moment of the day, so how can you play favorites with somebody?

  

  John Zorn
  • People
  • World
  • Beautiful

• You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Responsibility
  • Choices
  • Actresses