Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes
I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
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It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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All of my characters are less than perfect.
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I've been loving music all my life.
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Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.
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When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'
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As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I'm going on a longer car ride, I'll download some podcasts.
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
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Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.
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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
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the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.
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I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.
