I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.
NICOLE KIDMANYou have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you’re starting again.
More Nicole Kidman Quotes
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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’s my job as an actor to commit to the role and not – through my own inhibitions – run away.
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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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~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It’s always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.~
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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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If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.
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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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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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The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about 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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I don’t believe in having body doubles for a film.
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In my heart I’m independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.
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I’ll put it out there: I love getting hugs.
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You can ask me pretty much anything. There’ll be things I’ll go, ‘That feels a little too personal.’ But most things I don’t have a fear of being asked about.
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Now 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.
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I just have a desire not to judge and view things compassionately.
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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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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 like exploring life and its complexities.
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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 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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I’m now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.
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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 find standing and posing for photos very awkward.
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Ultimately, you’re left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion.
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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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