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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.’

Nicole Kidman

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.
NICOLE KIDMAN

Choice Experience Life Myself Option Walk
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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Ability Beautiful Happiness Life Respond Sadness
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
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
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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Bliss Finding Follow Human Place Yourself
I don’t believe in having body doubles for a film.
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Believe Body Movie Myself
You can’t find peace by hiding from life.
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Hide Life Peace Yourself
I’ll put it out there: I love getting hugs.
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Hug Love Myself
~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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Children Difficult Experience Pain Protection
Acting runs through my blood. There is some sort of creative desire to express myself and I would need that outlet. Otherwise I would be a nightmare to live with.
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Act Blood Creativity Desire Expression Live Myself Run
I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don’t like the feel of butterflies’ bodies.
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Butterfly Cover Feeling Myself Plane Road
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
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
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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Actor Emotion Exploration Live People Play Reason Yourself
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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Book Children Fantasy Life Myself Save
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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Actor Control Domination Ourselves Work
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 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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Angel Audition Character Myself Religious
I’m very much an admirer of people who are reaching for things and trying to survive.
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Admire People Reach Survive Yourself
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
It’s good to have a little distance. If you discuss your love too much, it just damages it.
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Damage Distance Goodness Love Yourself
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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Big Bold Criticism Help Risk Yourself
I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.
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Awkward Finding Myself Photo Pose Stand
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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Human Stop Violence Woman
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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Fair Myself Skin Stay Sun
I’m willing to fly close to the flame.
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Flame Fly Myself Willing
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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Feminism Myself Protection Try Woman

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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