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.
NICOLE KIDMANThe journey of life – we all go through it: You have love, you lose love, you find new love. To have love again is a beautiful thing.
More Nicole Kidman Quotes
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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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Breathe and don’t try to be perfect.
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I’m willing to fly close to the flame.
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The journey of life – we all go through it: You have love, you lose love, you find new love. To have love again is a beautiful thing.
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In my heart I’m independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.
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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 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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It’s my job as an actor to commit to the role and not – through my own inhibitions – run away.
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There’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.
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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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You can’t find peace by hiding from life.
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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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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’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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The things that go on in my head are far more interesting than what actually happens.
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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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Whatever you do in life, don’t give up on your own dreams.
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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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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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The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.
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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 took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.
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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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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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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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You’ve got to find your bliss as a human being, because if you can follow that, everything else falls into place.
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