It was very natural for me to want to disappear into the theatre, I am really very shy.
NICOLE KIDMANUltimately, you’re left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion.
More Nicole Kidman Quotes
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People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we’re all going to die, so how do you want to live?
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I just have a desire not to judge and view things compassionately.
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I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.
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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 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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You can’t find peace by hiding from life.
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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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It’s so bizarre, I’m not scared of snakes or spiders. But I’m scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!
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Men don’t pay you for sex, they pay you to leave after sex.
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I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.
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I’m a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I’m a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I’m betraying myself and my children.
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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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You don’t have to be naked to be sexy.
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That goes against what I believe morally. That’s adultery, and if I’m accused of that, no, that’s not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn’t happen, and it’s not to be reported that way.
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You have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you’re starting again.
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I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn’t get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn’t get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.
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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 jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don’t like the feel of butterflies’ bodies.
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I’m very much an admirer of people who are reaching for things and trying to survive.
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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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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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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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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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The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.
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I have always tried to be a woman who protects other women. I have a sister, I have daughters, I have girlfriends, and I was raised by a feminist mother.
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