Nicole Kidman: You want to take some responsibility for you choices so...

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.

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You aren't really anybody in America if you're not on TV.

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I'm reserved. I'm more of an introvert than an extrovert.

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There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists.

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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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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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The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.

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

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

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I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to. One of them for me is women and children's health around the world and their rights;the other is ovarian cancer.

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You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it.

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I think that divorce is hard for anyone. It's a nightmare - it just is - and you can pretend you're fine. And [there are] days you're great [and] days you're not great.

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I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.

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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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I want to go home at night and feel discomfort.

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Refuse to let your circumstances make you bitter. Do what you must to make them better.

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As an actor you're only as good as the things you're offered. And there just weren't any female directors offering me things. So when you dissect that, you realize there aren't women offering you things because they don't have the opportunities. I work to raise money for women's cancers; I use my voice for violence against women.

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I've just always been interested in how people lead their lives. How they survive in this world. I'm curious about people's damage, and navigating that and the way people forgive. I find it really interesting. That's why we have to transform on a daily basis, work on ourselves. It's work.

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I love acting with very little dialogue. As long as it's supported. I mean, in terms of cinema, you can have a great monologue, but if you're not supported by the images ... You can be feeling things and then you see it back, and you're like, "None of that came across." Or the angle of my face gives it a completely different interpretation than what I was trying to communicate.

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I just feel like I'm in the world right now. There have been times when I haven't felt in the world, when I haven't cared whether I was going to be here or not, so my relationship with being on the earth was probably not as intense. And right now, there's an intensity - I want to be here.

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