Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes
You'll nip anybody who's coming at you with bullshit. You don't play around. You take this craft very seriously. It's what separates you, what separates an actor from an artist.
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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I'm a huge gamer. I play a lot of games, and I play one game until I'm really, really good at it.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'
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An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
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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 debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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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 wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
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Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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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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I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play.
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I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.
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Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.
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Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.
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You'll nip anybody who's coming at you with bullshit. You don't play around. You take this craft very seriously. It's what separates you, what separates an actor from an artist.
