Nicole Kidman Quotes & Sayings

If I fall over and make mistakes, I'll pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself with as much authenticity and moral code. — Nicole Kidman

As a Goodwill Ambassador for UNIFEM, I've learned that violence against women knows no boundaries. Join me in helping women worldwide who have suffered unthinkable violence. — Nicole Kidman

People say that jealousy is the greatest enemy of love. They're wrong. The greatest enemy of love is boredom. — Nicole Kidman

Well, I can wear heels now. — Nicole Kidman

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. — Nicole Kidman

Don't worry about something going away; enjoy it while it's happening. And don't worry about something that's not even real. — Nicole Kidman

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 — Nicole Kidman

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. — Nicole Kidman

I don't like changing with the wind; I like sticking to my own self. — Nicole Kidman

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

I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I've always felt is a sign of respect for others. — Nicole Kidman

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. — Nicole Kidman

You can still fight when someone can't talk. — Nicole Kidman

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

I love lying in darkness. — Nicole Kidman

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

It's strange, but sad. I think I'll always be sad. — Nicole Kidman

Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment. — Nicole Kidman

It's the warmest, loveliest community I've ever set foot in. For me, it's the perfect place to live. It's the best part of America. — Nicole Kidman

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

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

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

I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don't like the feel of butterflies' bodies. — Nicole Kidman

I do research. I do emotional sort of Method work. Somehow it's a huge mishmash of things that becomes my own acting process and my own way of navigating through something. But ultimately the desire is to be honest, and for that truth to bleed through into your work and onto the screen. — Nicole Kidman

Now I can wear heels. (on divorcing Tom Cruise) — Nicole Kidman

I'm always happy to play the bad girl. I just get to have fun, and it's obviously all done with a smile. — Nicole Kidman

You don't have to be naked to be sexy. — Nicole Kidman

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

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

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. — Nicole Kidman

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. — Nicole Kidman

Regrets are ridiculous, so I don't regret, no. — Nicole Kidman

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate. — Nicole Kidman

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. — Nicole Kidman

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

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. — Nicole Kidman

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. — Nicole Kidman

I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter. — Nicole Kidman

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

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. — Nicole Kidman

I just feel my way through. If I had to give an acting class, I wouldn't know what to do. — Nicole Kidman

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. — Nicole Kidman

The things that go on in my head are far more interesting than what actually happens ... — Nicole Kidman

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

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. — Nicole Kidman

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. — Nicole Kidman

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. — Nicole Kidman

It's good to have a little distance. If you discuss your love too much, it just damages it. — Nicole Kidman

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

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves. — Nicole Kidman

It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life. — Nicole Kidman

That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story. — Nicole Kidman

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. — Nicole Kidman

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. — Nicole Kidman

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

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

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. — Nicole Kidman

I have a passion for my work, and that can seep into you. It's almost as if you're drawn to it. — Nicole Kidman

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

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. — Nicole Kidman

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. — Nicole Kidman

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. — Nicole Kidman

I'm always interested in films that are about extreme subject matters. — Nicole Kidman

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

I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive. — Nicole Kidman

And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud. — Nicole Kidman

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

I'm willing to fly close to the flame. — Nicole Kidman

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

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. — Nicole Kidman

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. — Nicole Kidman

You can't find peace by hiding from life — Nicole Kidman

I got married really fast and really young. — Nicole Kidman

I always try to push through fear. I won't be crippled by it. People say, "Oh you take such risks", or "You're brave." And I'm like, 'Well, if you knew - inside I'm really frightened!' But the way people navigate fear and pain is fascinating ... The more you feel, the stronger the pain. And the more you engage in life, the more you have to lose. — Nicole Kidman

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. — Nicole Kidman

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

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

Men don't pay you for sex, they pay you to leave after sex. — Nicole Kidman

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

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. — Nicole Kidman

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. — Nicole Kidman

There are moments when you feel as if you have been blessed for a while, moments when you think this is perfect, moments when you start to believe that even for an hour, even for a year, it might all happen. So I'm determined to keep making it get better and better. — Nicole Kidman

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. — Nicole Kidman

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

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

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

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

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. — Nicole Kidman

I want to go home at night and feel discomfort. — Nicole Kidman

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

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. — Nicole Kidman

I look at everything I've done critically - but I think that's the job of an actor. If you ever sit on your laurels or think that you're good - in a way, I don't then think you're pushing yourself. — Nicole Kidman

Deep down am I superstitious? No. Do I believe in trying to be as kind as possible and as compassionate as possible because ultimately you're alone with yourself and your own conscience, and you want that to be as clear as possible? That's not superstition. You have to just try and stay pure and know what you value. — Nicole Kidman

One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time. — Nicole Kidman

I am very shy - really shy - I even had a stutter as a kid, which I slowly got over, but I still regress into that shyness. So I don't like walking into a crowded restaurant by myself; I don't like going to a party by myself. — Nicole Kidman

I'm not drawn to stories that are just sort of fluffy. I'm just not, and I've tried to, and as a kid I was never drawn to them. I always chose complicated. — Nicole Kidman

I believe the experiences of life are more important than any film you make. — Nicole Kidman

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. — Nicole Kidman

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

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. — Nicole Kidman