In my heart I’m independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.
NICOLE KIDMANThere’s something to be said for going back to a simple form of living-nature and family. There’s something very there’s safety in that.
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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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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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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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’m not sure what the future holds but I do know that I’m going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said ‘Nic, it is what it is, it’s not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.’
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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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Even from a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.
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I don’t like changing with the wind; I like sticking to my own self.
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I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.
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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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Breathe and don’t try to be perfect.
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You don’t have to be naked to be sexy.
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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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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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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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