Nicole Kidman Quotes
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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.
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Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.
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I do believe there is enormous possibility to change this world.
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Since I have fair skin, I have to stay out of the sun. I can't stand the sun. I dyed my hair red for a while during the 1990s but I'm actually a natural blonde.
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I'm now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.
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It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.
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You live a third of your life when you dream. So you may as well live in your dreams the way you want to be living. The way you want to be.
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Not to be too detailed, but I've had an ectopic pregnancy, miscarriages and I've had fertility treatments. I've done all the stuff you can possibly do to try get pregnant.
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There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists.
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I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself.
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The journey of life – we all go through it: You have love, you lose love, you find new love. To have love again is a beautiful thing.
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Your confidence grows as you get older, particularly when you're in a loving relationship. Everything strengthens.
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I dig my heels in every now and then, and think 'I'm not going to do what's expected or what people think is the right thing.' So I have a little bit of that in my personality.
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No matter how much you're going to be criticized or no matter how big of a risk it is, the boldness is the thing that helps you.
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Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
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It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.
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I just feel my way through. If I had to give an acting class, I wouldn't know what to do.
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I kept looking for happiness, and then I realized: This is it. It's a moment, and it comes, and it goes, and it'll come back again. I yearn for things, but at the same time I'm just peaceful.
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That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story.
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As an actor you're only as good as the things you're offered. And there just weren't any female directors offering me things. So when you dissect that, you realize there aren't women offering you things because they don't have the opportunities. I work to raise money for women's cancers; I use my voice for violence against women.
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It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.
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I am very shy - really shy - I even had a stutter as a kid, which I slowly got over, but I still regress into that shyness. So I don't like walking into a crowded restaurant by myself; I don't like going to a party by myself.
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I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.
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I want to be contributing and working with people that I like and love, and this was the perfect combination.