Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes

I'm always happy to play the bad girl. I just get to have fun, and it's obviously all done with a smile.

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• At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Award

• People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

  

  Kate Morton
  • People
  • Writing
  • Business

• I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Question
  • Go
  • Meeting

• I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Creative

• I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Opportunity
  • Impact

• There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Heart
  • Something
  • Humility

• I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Up
  • Family
  • Down

• I was a filmy kid. I was two when I faced the camera for the first time. My parents realised it pretty early, and I'm really thankful to them for their support and help.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Help
  • Pretty

• If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Conflict

• A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Think

• I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Life
  • Rock

• China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Strong
  • Government
  • China

• I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Music
  • Mean
  • Years

• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Happiness
  • Everyday
  • Self

• It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Team
  • Group
  • Celebrate

• People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Nice
  • Friendly

• Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Real
  • Lives
  • Little

• When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • Care
  • Body

• No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

  

  Channing Pollock
  • May
  • Small

• You have to have a certain single-mindedness if you want to reach the top of the profession, and I'm not sure if I've got that cold-eyed egomania that perhaps is needed to get to the top. So as long as I can keep paying the mortgage and keep myself interested, I'll be happy.

  

  David Harewood
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Single

• may i be i is the only prayer--not may i be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong today... may i be me....five foot eleven, brown hair/eyed, smart, serious, happy, frustrated, impatient, joyful, running, sleeping, smiling, eating, trying, believing, listening, being & becoming.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Good
  • Great
  • Trying

• I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Country
  • Done
  • Home

• I remember one point seeing I had like 60-some different cell phones. I know I only use one.

  

  Bernard Kosar
  • Use
  • I Remember
  • Cell Phones

• I'm always happy to play the bad girl. I just get to have fun, and it's obviously all done with a smile.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Happy
  • Play
  • Smile