Nicole Kidman quotes: on regrets, letting yourself be loved, walking rather than talking, and more.
“Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.”
“The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.”
“Whatever you do in life, don’t give up on your own dreams.”
“You live a third of your life when you dream. So you may as well live in your dreams the way you want to be living. The way you want to be.”
“Refuse to let your circumstances make you bitter. Do what you must to make them better.”
“To appreciate the success you have to have had the failures. You have to accept that it is a journey and it’s not just tomorrow or the next day or next year.”
“Sometimes your mistakes are your biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that’s happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.”
“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.”
“You have to just try and stay pure and know what you value.”
“Have no regrets. Every relationship leads you to where you’re meant to be. Learn to be comfortable with being alone. Learn to be comfortable with saying no to people; we put everybody else before ourselves. Read great literature; don’t get all your information from TV. Define your moral code – nobody else is going to give you that. Find it yourself. Keep asking questions, keep challenging. You don’t have to conform. Rebellion creates character. And, as my mother always said to me, ‘Don’t let anyone break your spirit!'”
“I always try to push through fear. I won’t be crippled by it.”
“Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.”
“When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.”
“If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.”
“People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we’re all going to die, so how do you want to live?”
“I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I’ve always felt is a sign of respect for others.”
“The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Breathe and don’t try to be perfect.”
“You can’t find peace by hiding from life.”
“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.”
“I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It’s important not to focus on yourself too much.”
“I have a passion for my work, and that can seep into you. It’s almost as if you’re drawn to it.”
“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.”
“Happiness, that’s obviously different for everybody, but what I call my joy, the thing that makes me feel incredibly satiated, is my family, and then I get to go and play out all of my ideas and feelings through all these different characters.”
“Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me. I knew I didn’t want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.”
“Before I got a job, I would catch the bus and go to a theater on a Saturday morning and do classes instead of going to the beach or playing. It was completely self-motivated.”
“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.”
“I’m not sure what the future holds but I do know that I’m going to be positive.”
“What’s never changed is my desire to work with great directors and to find projects that push me out of my comfort zone and keep me alive. I still don’t think I’ve done my best work.”
“Regrets are ridiculous, so I don’t regret, no.”
“There are moments when you feel as if you have been blessed for a while, moments when you think this is perfect, moments when you start to believe that even for an hour, even for a year, it might all happen. So I’m determined to keep making it get better and better.”
“I think that’s probably my main thing: just do the work. I’m not a big fan of sitting around, saying what I’m going to do. And we’ve all got brilliant ways of ducking and weaving so that we don’t have to do it. But my thing is to just get it on its feet and do it.”
“You’re going to fall flat on your face, just get back up again.”
“As long as I’ve given something the best I can, have really committed, everything else is up to God.”
“You’ve got to find your bliss as a human being, because if you can follow that, everything else falls into place.”
“Don’t you worry about a thing, my darling. You live your life.”
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