Nicole Kidman Quotations

Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.'

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

I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.

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

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.

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.

I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.

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

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

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.

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.

I like the privacy of my life and I protect it quite vigilantly.

I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers.

I want to be in places I've never been before.

I have a boy's body. I would prefer to have more curves because I think that's more beautiful. I would much rather have J. Lo's body than mine.

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.

I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself.

It's very easy to fall in love when things are great, but the way to really fall in love is when things aren't great.

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

I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive.

I don't really make decisions, I go with the flow.

I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

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

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

You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.

I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.

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.

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

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

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

I want to go home at night and feel discomfort.

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

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

I don't really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.

I never read reviews at all. I'm proud of the work I did.

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.

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

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

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.

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

People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we're all going to die, so how do you want to live?

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

You can still fight when someone can't talk.

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.

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.

Not to be too detailed, but I've had an ectopic pregnancy, miscarriages and I've had fertility treatments. I've done all the stuff you can possibly do to try get pregnant.

You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.

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.

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.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

I don't believe in having body doubles for a film.

I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.

I got married really fast and really young.

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

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

My kids and the film Moulin Rouge! are the two things that are my shining lights.

If I packaged toothpaste and told you you were gonna get half the toothpaste in the tube, you probably wouldn't buy it.

have to play a 22-year-old, and she's nearly 40. ... They said, 'How about Hilary Swank?' I said, 'Great, fine, whoever.' I would have said, 'Great, fine, whoever,' if they had said Roseanne Barr. I stopped paying attention because I'm focusing on my future, not my past.

I think Daniel will just smoke in it. He is such an accomplished actor.

I say to the writers, please keep writing for us, we're very interesting. And to the directors, please keep taking chances and giving us complicated, rich characters to play.

I think particularly with this it's a theme that runs through a lot of my films which is the love a mother has for a child .

I thought I was doing a small play in an experimental theater, and I couldn't believe the reaction it got, ... I was so nervous the opening night, and then, once the play started, I thought, 'Just go for it.'

When we would walk into parties ... I might as well have been the woodwork. I found it fascinating to watch how people fawn over Nicole's ethereal, extraterrestrial beauty.

You start out with big dreams and I mean, big dreams artistically. You want to work with the greatest living directors, make a great movie. I wanted to make a great love story, I wanted to make a great epic and then you realize that the truth of it is that it's so hard to make a great film. It's hard to get a great role. Those big expectations change to realism pretty quickly. But 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

Compared to the Cannes film festival, this is a sedate crowd.

It was far more complex than I thought it was going to be in terms of the duration it was shot for, but also in terms of the characters, and working with my husband, and dealing with the subject matter we were dealing with, ... It was difficult at times but it was incredibly rewarding and I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

They asked me if I would accept and I felt slightly embarrassed.

It's not about me in a wierd way its about the people who help get me here.

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.

I hope that I can act as a conduit, that I can be the person who tells some of these stories. The way in which I was raised and the things I've seen in my life has led me toward this.

I am proud to be in his hands,

If I was in Sydney, I love the beach. Even though I'm incredibly pale, I put on these terribly long unattractive rashies, and people laugh at me. My kids laugh at me. But that's what I would do.

You'll nip anybody who's coming at you with bullshit. You don't play around. You take this craft very seriously. It's what separates you, what separates an actor from an artist.

Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.

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

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.

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

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

You have to love, without judgment, every actor that you're working with to make beauty.