"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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What lands is the pivot from spectacle to logistics: "do my work, raise my kids". It's a deliberately unglamorous inventory, the kind that punctures the red-carpet narrative with ordinary obligations. For an actress whose career depends on being seen, the line insists on an interior life that doesn't. The subtext is control: I will decide what parts of me are for performance and what parts are not.
Then she lets the mask slip just enough: "hopefully find somebody... again". That "again" is doing heavy lifting. It acknowledges loss and the public history attached to it without naming names, a way of reclaiming desire while refusing to turn it into content. "Share my life with" avoids the romanticized language of soulmate mythology; it sounds like partnership, not fantasy.
In the cultural context of celebrity women being punished for either moving on too fast or not fast enough, the quote reads as a refusal of the prescribed script. She's not asking for sympathy; she's asking for a quieter frame, where work, parenting, and love aren't plot points but priorities.
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| Topic | Single Parent |
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| Source | Help us find the source |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Kidman, Nicole. (2026, January 16). 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. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/honestly-people-have-said-everything-under-the-92723/
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Kidman, Nicole. "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." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/honestly-people-have-said-everything-under-the-92723/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"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." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/honestly-people-have-said-everything-under-the-92723/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.







