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.
NICOLE KIDMANSince 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.
More Nicole Kidman Quotes
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Men don’t pay you for sex, they pay you to leave after sex.
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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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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 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 believe the experiences of life are more important than any film you make.
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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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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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You can’t find peace by hiding from life.
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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 don’t have to be naked to be sexy.
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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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I’m a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.
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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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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 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 took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.
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I’m interested in going places that I haven’t been. And I’m interesting in working with people that I feel are dangerous and sort of push me in different places.
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I’m willing to fly close to the flame.
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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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I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don’t think you ever abandon any of them.
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I would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me, it really upsets me. If something makes me angry, I get really angry. But it’s all very upfront. I can’t hide it. I’m also loyal and I hope I’m fun.
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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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You have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you’re starting again.
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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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I try never to be governed by fear; that’s how I choose things.
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