Nicole Kidman Quotes

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

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

Don't you worry about a thing, my darling. You live your life.

I like exploring life and its complexities.

I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.

It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.

Now my ability to notice things and respond to things and be here is far more profound. With that comes happiness, with it comes sadness, but it's a beautiful life.

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.

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.

These different people that I play become the loves of my life.

Now, after divorce with Tom Cruise, I can wear heels.

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

People say that jealousy is the greatest enemy of love. They’re wrong. The greatest enemy of love is boredom.

I'm spontaneous. I jump in. I kind of like getting married and then getting to know each other; I know that it sounds incredibly strange, but to me, it's a more natural process.

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

You can't find peace by hiding from life

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

Acting runs through my blood. There is some sort of creative desire to express myself and I would need that outlet. Otherwise I would be a nightmare to live with

I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect.

The journey of life - we all go through it: You have love, you lose love, you find new love. To have love again is a beautiful thing.

Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.

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

If you've got red hair, try washing it in cranberry juice. And, if you're blonde, a champagne rinse can work wonders.

Acting for me is not a business, it's about trying to make pieces of art that I believe that I feel proud of. And it's the journey of that.

Why do a crappy film role when you can do a meaty stage role? and ...I'm not small and curvy and I don't fit the prerequiste for small, passive, sexy chicks.

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

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

If you take care of the woman in the family, the whole family prospers. But when the mother falters, the family falls apart.

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

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

As much as I have films and all that sort of stuff, a lot of my memories are to do with relationships and love.

I'm interested in going places that I haven't been. And I'm interesting in working with people that I feel are dangerous and sort of push me in different places.

I'm now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.

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

I dig my heels in every now and then, and think 'I'm not going to do what's expected or what people think is the right thing.' So I have a little bit of that in my personality.

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

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 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 the theatre, I am really very shy.

You have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you're starting again.

I look for roles that show women as independent, informed, and free to make their own decisions.

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

I credit literature for the reason I act because that was the door to me saying, ‘Oh! I can be somebody else. I can exist as someone else.’

I'd rather walk a tightrope than have my feet on the ground.

Dealing with these emotions as an actress is like being a boxer put into the ring.

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.

I think we do need radicals. We need extremists, because that's how change happens.