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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When I'm not working... I'm an actor! I'm auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for boyfriends, play MASH, the usual.
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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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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.
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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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My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.
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I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
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I can play a man who's despicable. But I'll still look inside him to find a point of connection. If I can find that kernel, audiences will relate to me.
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The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.
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People have a hard time reading my comics. I think I leave things out, but I feel you should.
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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.
