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.
NICOLE KIDMANIt’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!
More Nicole Kidman Quotes
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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’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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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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I don’t like changing with the wind; I like sticking to my own self.
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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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If I fall over and make mistakes, I’ll pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself with as much authenticity and moral code.
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I’ll put it out there: I love getting hugs.
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Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I’m very medical. I come from a medical family.
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To appreciate the success you have to have had the failures. You have to accept that it is a journey and its not just tomorrow or the next day or next year.
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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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I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.
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As much as I have films and all that sort of stuff, a lot of my memories are to do with relationships and love.
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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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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 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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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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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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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’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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It’s good to have a little distance. If you discuss your love too much, it just damages it.
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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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I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.
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I like exploring life and its complexities.
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Men don’t pay you for sex, they pay you to leave after sex.
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You have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you’re starting again.
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