Nicole Kidman Quotes

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.

I was told I had a two per cent chance of getting pregnant, so I say she's a two per cent baby.

I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then also kind of like to have just the white picket fence life if that makes sense.

The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth.

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.

I suppose the underlying current for me is the idea of not doing something I've done before. I call myself a character actor and I'm always trying to stay a character actor.

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

I think love is the core emotion. Without that, and I've certainly existed without that, it's a very empty life.

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

I think if you have someone to love and someone who loves you, that's the greatest beauty secret.

I got married really fast and really young.

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.

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 think you put art out into the world, and sometimes it's divisive, sometimes it's embraced. Sometimes people cry, laugh or have complicated reactions.

I never like to tell people what they should take.

I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.

As an actor timing is important, especially as a mother with small children, so a lot is chance.

It's very, very rare to find five roles in one piece where we'd all jump at the chance to play any of them.

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.

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

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

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

Well, I can wear heels now.

Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.

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

I do believe there is enormous possibility to change this world.

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

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

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

Divorce is divorce and it's a really tough thing to go through, (But) I'd love to get married again.

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

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

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

It's taken me 40-something years, but I embrace the curl. My littlest daughter has the same hair. She likes it when my hair is curly, so I wear it for her.

Now I can wear high heels again.

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 want to be tested beyond my comfort zone. I don't want to be safe if it is more interesting to be dangerous.

I like bold directors. I like directors that go against the norm in a way.

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?

Vengeance is just a lazy form of grief.

Probably the biggest compliment someone can give you is, "Gosh, you look great. You don't look tired."

I love that ["Big Little Lies"] is about women coming together and making something happen very quickly, with friendship being the core of it.

I want to be with people I really like. I don't want to be working on things with people that I'm not happy to be there [with].

I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.

Sometimes as an actor you're struggling to make things work. That was never the case for me with [Big Little Lies script]. It just kind of flowed out.

When I was working with Stanley Kubrick [on "Eyes Wide Shut"], he would always say, "You never tell the audience what to feel. Let them choose to have their responses."

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.

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.

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