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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.

Nicole Kidman

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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Actor Amount Madness People Quite Togetherness Yourself
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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Care Fall Family Mom Woman Yourself
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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Best Code Fall Hope Mistake Moral Myself
It was very natural for me to want to disappear into the theatre, I am really very shy.
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Disappear Myself Natural Theatre
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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Angry Description Emotion Fun Hope Important Myself Upset
I don’t believe in having body doubles for a film.
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Believe Body Movie Myself
If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.
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Darkness Life Passion Side Strength Yourself
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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Give Up Hope Human Job Knowledge Learning Share
You can’t find peace by hiding from life.
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Hide Life Peace Yourself
I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I’ve always felt is a sign of respect for others.
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Feeling Myself Punctual Respect Sign Teaching
Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.
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Forget Future Live Moments Past Prediction
I don’t really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.
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Attention Celebrate Enough Fame Myself
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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Love Memories Movie Myself Relationship
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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Connect Expectation Myself Point Strange
I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.
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Desire Myself Peaceful Time Yearn
Regrets are ridiculous, so I don’t regret, no.
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Myself Regret
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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Myself Scare Snake Spider Weird
I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.
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Art Believe Compassionate Kindness Love Myself World
I think it’s important that we don’t all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything’s fine.
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Head Hold Important Myself Thinking
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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Couple Deep Easy Experience Pain Togetherness Yourself
I have a passion for my work, and that can seep into you. It’s almost as if you’re drawn to it.
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Drawn Passion Work Yourself
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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Dangerous Different Feeling Interest Myself Place Travel
The things that go on in my head are far more interesting than what actually happens.
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Head Imagination Myself
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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Family Form Live Safety Simplicity
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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Deserve Difficult Feeling Learning Love Myself Struggle Thinking
~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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The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.
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Flaw Hate Self Love Value Yourself

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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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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