Nicole Kidman Quotes
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Whatever you do in life, don't give up on your own dreams.
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You're either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you're going to be a voyeur. And I'm not a voyeur.
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I love lying in darkness.
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I try never to be governed by fear; that's how I choose things.
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You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses.
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I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby.
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I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive.
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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 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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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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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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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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You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.
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To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That’s why, when people meet you and you seem very together, they are quite surprised - they don’t see you behind closed doors.
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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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My personality does well with people who are deemed difficult. I don't know why it does but I just seem to get along with them. The more difficult the better.
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I do have to say my daughter, Sunday, said to me I was being overprotective, so you must have been a fly on the wall.
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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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Acting for me is not a business, it's about trying to make pieces of art that I believe that I feel proud of. And it's the journey of that.
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I suppose the underlying current for me is the idea of not doing something I've done before. I call myself a character actor and I'm always trying to stay a character actor.
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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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I want to go home at night and feel discomfort.
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Breathe and don't try to be perfect.
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I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect.