You have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you’re starting again.
NICOLE KIDMANI 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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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 have a passion for my work, and that can seep into you. It’s almost as if you’re drawn to it.
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Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people’s lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.
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Men don’t pay you for sex, they pay you to leave after sex.
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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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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 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 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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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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Breathe and don’t try to be perfect.
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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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I’m very much an admirer of people who are reaching for things and trying to survive.
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I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.
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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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Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.
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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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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 think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that’s what I’ve learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.
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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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The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.
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Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.
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It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.
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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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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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Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
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I just have a desire not to judge and view things compassionately.
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