Nicole Kidman Quotes & Sayings

#1. I always try to push through fear.

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#2. Now I can wear heels. (on divorcing Tom Cruise)

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#3. I don't mind being naked.

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#4. The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience.

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#5. My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was 'Oh my God! It's over for her now!'

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#6. I just feel my way through. If I had to give an acting class, I wouldn't know what to do.

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#7. I love just sitting quietly meditating. With an hour free, it depends. I love getting down on the floor and playing with my kids.

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#8. 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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#9. Regrets are ridiculous, so I don't regret, no.

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#10. 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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#11. Ultimately, you're left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion.

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#12. Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.

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#13. If I were a strategically minded person, I think I would have a far different career.

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#14. 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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#15. And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud.

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#16. It's the warmest, loveliest community I've ever set foot in. For me, it's the perfect place to live. It's the best part of America.

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#17. Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.

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#18. You have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you're starting again.

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#19. I'm always happy to play the bad girl. I just get to have fun, and it's obviously all done with a smile.

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#20. 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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#21. You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.

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#22. The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth.

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#23. I love lying in darkness.

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#24. 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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#25. I didn't really care about my physical health; I only cared about what was on screen.

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#26. You don't have to be naked to be sexy.

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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. As an actor you don't control the end result. Because you're a director, you get to control the end result. I think for us, we really have to show up and participate and give. And then let go.

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#30. I've always been somebody on a journey of discovery.

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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. Now I can wear high heels again.

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#34. To be honest, I am completely natural. I have nothing in my face or anything. I wear sunscreen, and I don't smoke. I take care of myself and I'm very proud to say that.

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#35. I'm willing to fly close to the flame.

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#36. I'm always interested in films that are about extreme subject matters.

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#37. Having your work be the basis of fame, that's a far more stable feeling.

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#38. I believe the experiences of life are more important than any film you make.

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#39. I like bold directors. I like directors that go against the norm in a way ...

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#40. 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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#41. I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby.

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#42. When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

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#43. I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women

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#44. LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.

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#45. I would rather be tough on myself than have other people be tough on me.

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#46. You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses.

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#47. I do research. I do emotional sort of Method work. Somehow it's a huge mishmash of things that becomes my own acting process and my own way of navigating through something. But ultimately the desire is to be honest, and for that truth to bleed through into your work and onto the screen.

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#48. I look for roles that show women as independent, informed, and free to make their own decisions.

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#49. As a Goodwill Ambassador for UNIFEM, I've learned that violence against women knows no boundaries. Join me in helping women worldwide who have suffered unthinkable violence.

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#50. I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.

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#51. I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then also kind of like to have just the white picket fence life if that makes sense.

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#52. I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.

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#53. I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive.

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#54. It's strange, but sad. I think I'll always be sad.

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#55. With every character, you alter, you can't be attached to your own identity.

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#56. I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection.

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#57. 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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#58. Well, I can wear heels now.

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#59. It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.

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#60. Once I start putting all my little insecurities in my mind, I'm not actually acting. Then it's about me - and it should never be about me. It should be about the character.

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#61. I'm not drawn to stories that are just sort of fluffy. I'm just not, and I've tried to, and as a kid I was never drawn to them. I always chose complicated.

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#62. They give us access to another world, they give us access to dreams. It's our way of living in a different realm for a short period of time - and how beautiful is that?

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#63. 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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#64. I want to be tested beyond my comfort zone. I don't want to be safe if it is more interesting to be dangerous.

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#65. I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.

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#66. I am very shy - really shy - I even had a stutter as a kid, which I slowly got over, but I still regress into that shyness. So I don't like walking into a crowded restaurant by myself; I don't like going to a party by myself.

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#67. I was fair-skinned in a country that's about the outdoors.

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#68. That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story.

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#69. My path was to be an actor and it's been very good to me in life. It's broadened my horizons and given me a lot of gifts.

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#70. If you're going to be with someone, you're with them, you're committed to them. I'm not sort of flitting around.

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#71. It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.

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#72. I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

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#73. Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.

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#74. 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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#75. Divorce is divorce and it's a really tough thing to go through, (But) I'd love to get married again.

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#76. These different people that I play become the loves of my life.

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#77. I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.

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#78. I got married really fast and really young.

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#79. Yippee! I can't believe I made it. It feels like a long haul to get here. I'm so fine with it. People want you to have some sort of breakdown, but I'm relieved to be 40 years old, and I've lived a life.

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#80. Men don't pay you for sex, they pay you to leave after sex.

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#81. 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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#82. I'll put it out there: I love getting hugs.

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#83. Your confidence grows as you get older, particularly when you're in a loving relationship. Everything strengthens.

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#84. What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching?

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#85. 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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#86. 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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