Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes

The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Power
  • Spring
  • Year

• I wasn't a ladies' man.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Man
  • Ladies

• I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Time
  • Different
  • Kids

• In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Early
  • Influenced
  • Ventures

• I have a really great family, and when I'm not filming, I go home and walk the dogs, take out the garbage, clean my room, all that stuff. My family and my friends keep me in line, and make sure I don't get crazy.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Great
  • Family
  • Home

• Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • God
  • Sports
  • Face

• I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • War
  • Society
  • Terrorism

• I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Ideas
  • Thoughts
  • Very

• I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Kids
  • Proud
  • Enough

• You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • God
  • Perfect
  • Person

• My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Mind
  • Generation
  • Most

• My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Country
  • House
  • Dream

• Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Different
  • Words
  • Single

• In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.

  

  Irving Paul Lazar
  • You
  • Train
  • Compromise

• My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Holiday
  • Jazz

• I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film. I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film because I think it was a one-off before it was imitated a hundred times.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Think
  • Thought

• I am a straightforward man.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Straightforward

• Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.

  

  Joe Manganiello

• Some people live life and others talk about it.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there's a lot of joy to be had wherever you are.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Work
  • She
  • Remember

• This 'Whoa, Nellie!' thing is overrated. There were all kinds of stories going around. People said I had a mule in Georgia named Nellie. Well, we had a mule in Georgia, but her name was Pearl.

  

  Keith Jackson
  • People

• I've been able to go so many places. I had the opportunity to go to Hong Kong when I was thirteen years old which is crazy. I lived there for three months. It was amazing. I couldn't ask for a more enriched life so far.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Good
  • Reach
  • Mediocrity