I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect.
NICOLE KIDMANPeople can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we’re all going to die, so how do you want to live?
More Nicole Kidman Quotes
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Whatever you do in life, don’t give up on your own dreams.
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I think it’s important that we don’t all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything’s fine.
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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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It was very natural for me to want to disappear into the theatre, I am really very shy.
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Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
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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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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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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 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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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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Men don’t pay you for sex, they pay you to leave after sex.
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It’s good to have a little distance. If you discuss your love too much, it just damages it.
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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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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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