Nicole Kidman Quotes
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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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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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As an actor you don't control the end result. Because you're a director, you get to control the end result. I think for us, we really have to show up and participate and give. And then let go.
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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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Dealing with these emotions as an actress is like being a boxer put into the ring.
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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 would rather be tough on myself than have other people be tough on me.
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The accumulation of experience gives you a debt in terms of compassion. I am very fortunate, and I feel dedicated to giving back to other women. Wherever I am now, I make sure I visit a women's shelter. But I don't want to do it in a frivolous way.
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I love lying in darkness.
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Whatever you do in life, don't give up on your own dreams.
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When falling in love I think you should say to yourself, ‘I am going to do this fully.’ I love to the fullest extent that I possibly can - and why not?... Maybe this means there is going to be pain, but I am willing to accept the pain.
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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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You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.
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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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Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.
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I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.
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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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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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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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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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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.