It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.
NICOLE KIDMANNow my ability to notice things and respond to things and be here is far more profound. With that comes happiness, with it comes sadness, but it’s a beautiful life.
More Nicole Kidman Quotes
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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.
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I like exploring life and its complexities.
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Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that’s happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.
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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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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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I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.
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Men don’t pay you for sex, they pay you to leave after sex.
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To appreciate the success you have to have had the failures. You have to accept that it is a journey and its not just tomorrow or the next day or next year.
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I love acting but I don’t like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are perceiving you.
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An actor who’s a control freak, that doesn’t work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.
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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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I don’t believe in having body doubles for a film.
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I’d like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I’m willing to go through a lot.
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If you take care of the woman in the family, the whole family prospers. But when the mother falters, the family falls apart.
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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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