Nicole Kidman Quotes
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I always try to push through fear. I won't be crippled by it. People say, "Oh you take such risks", or "You're brave." And I'm like, 'Well, if you knew - inside I'm really frightened!' But the way people navigate fear and pain is fascinating... The more you feel, the stronger the pain. And the more you engage in life, the more you have to lose.
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Regrets are ridiculous, so I don’t regret, no.
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Part of our job as human beings is to share our knowledge and share the things we've learned. So we can either save people from making the same mistakes, or give them hope.
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I think if you have someone to love and someone who loves you, that's the greatest beauty secret.
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I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'
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Dealing with these emotions as an actress is like being a boxer put into the ring.
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The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth.
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I do research. I do emotional sort of Method work. Somehow it’s a huge mishmash of things that becomes my own acting process and my own way of navigating through something. But ultimately the desire is to be honest, and for that truth to bleed through into your work and onto the screen.
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As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times what saved me.
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The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.
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When you know psychologically what characters are feeling, then that plays out on how you dress a lot of times.
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If you're intuitive and you have a desire for people to be happy and you want equilibrium and you want life to be good, then you'll worry. But we need to embrace the idea that, "No, I'm putting that aside, over there, in a box. I'll open that box when I wake up in the morning and deal with it then." I really find that men tend to do that, and it's great to be able to do.
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As much as I have films and all that sort of stuff, a lot of my memories are to do with relationships and love.
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I would rather be tough on myself than have other people be tough on me.
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Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?
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There's something to be said for going back to a simple form of living-nature and family. There's something very...there's safety in that.
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The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.
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You don't have to be naked to be sexy.
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When I was working with Stanley Kubrick on "Eyes Wide Shut", he would always say, "You never tell the audience what to feel. Let them choose to have their responses."
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It's very easy to fall in love when things are great, but the way to really fall in love is when things aren't great.
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It's very easy for a couple to experience joy together. But when you experience pain together, it can lead to such depth and such union. That is when you fuse.
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You aren't really anybody in America if you're not on TV.
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I have a boy's body. I would prefer to have more curves because I think that's more beautiful. I would much rather have J. Lo's body than mine.
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As an actor timing is important, especially as a mother with small children, so a lot is chance.