Nicole Kidman Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Nicole Kidman Quotes and Sayings
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Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, "What do you want?" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too.
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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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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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Having gone through all of this, I feel in some ways calmer now. It's strange, but sad. I think I'll always be sad.
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Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again.
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I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.
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I don't believe in having body doubles for a film.
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I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.
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I have a little bit of a belly, a tiny bit of pooch. It's the one thing I don't want to lose. I just like having some softness. If I lose that, then Tom might leave me.
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I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers.
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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 preceving you.
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I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.
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I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive.
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I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.
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I never read reviews at all. I'm proud of the work I did.
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I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.
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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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I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.
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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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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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I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.
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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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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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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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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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I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.
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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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It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.
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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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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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My choices in films are spontaneous.
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My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was 'Oh my God! It's over for her now!'
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Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?
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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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That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way.
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There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists.
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They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay. I personally don't believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff. Tom does. That's what he wants to do, that's what he's going to do. You do not tell Tom what to do. He is a force to be reckoned with.
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What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching.
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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
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You don't have to be naked to be sexy.
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You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.
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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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