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.
NICOLE KIDMANIt took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.
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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Regrets are ridiculous, so I don’t regret, no.
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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 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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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.
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I have always tried to be a woman who protects other women. I have a sister, I have daughters, I have girlfriends, and I was raised by a feminist mother.
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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’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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You have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you’re starting again.
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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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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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The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.
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I don’t really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.
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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 believe the experiences of life are more important than any film you make.
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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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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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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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I’m not sure what the future holds but I do know that I’m going to be positive.
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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 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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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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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 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 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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I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.
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