Top 100 Kidman's Quotes
#1. I didn't have time. I was too busy breaking up Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage. (on rumours he was responsible for Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt's break-up)
George Clooney
#2. I think gender plays a part in most things, but I don't know how it would be different because I've never been a man. And my fame is different from Nicole Kidman's or Sharon Stone's. I think everybody's fame is different.
Ellen DeGeneres
#3. 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.
Nicole Kidman
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. It's strange, but sad. I think I'll always be sad.
Nicole Kidman
#7. 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
#8. It's good to have a little distance. If you discuss your love too much, it just damages it.
Nicole Kidman
#9. 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
#10. I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.
Nicole Kidman
#11. 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
#12. 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.
Nicole Kidman
#13. I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.
Nicole Kidman
#14. To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That's why, when people meet you and you seem very together, they are quite surprised - they don't see you behind closed doors.
Nicole Kidman
#15. 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
#16. 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.
Nicole Kidman
#17. 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.
Nicole Kidman
#18. Having your work be the basis of fame, that's a far more stable feeling.
Nicole Kidman
#20. Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.
Nicole Kidman
#21. You're either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you're going to be a voyeur. And I'm not a voyeur.
Nicole Kidman
#22. I have always tried to be a woman who protects other women. I have a sister, I have daughters, I have girlfriends, and I was raised by a feminist mother.
Nicole Kidman
#23. I've always been somebody on a journey of discovery.
Nicole Kidman
#24. I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.
Q-Tip
#25. 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.
Nicole Kidman
#26. 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
#27. Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.
Nicole Kidman
#28. 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.
Nicole Kidman
#29. It's OK to sit in the Golden Globe room and look around and think, 'Oh, Helen Mirren's a loser tonight, so is Nicole Kidman. Meryl Streep lost tonight. Jessica Lange didn't win.' If you're gonna be in the company of losers, that's the company to be in.
Sarah Paulson
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.
Nicole Kidman
#34. 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.
Nicole Kidman
#35. 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.'
Nicole Kidman
#36. 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
#37. What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching?
Nicole Kidman
#38. There's just something about women and shoes, it's the luxury, it's the femininity and it's the attention to detail. You can put a lot of work into your dress but if you have the right shoe and bag then you feel good.
Nicole Kidman
#39. 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!
Nicole Kidman
#40. I think if you have someone to love and someone who loves you, that's the greatest beauty secret.
Nicole Kidman
#41. Divorce is divorce and it's a really tough thing to go through, (But) I'd love to get married again.
Nicole Kidman
#42. I was told I had a two per cent chance of getting pregnant, so I say she's a two per cent baby.
Nicole Kidman
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. I was fair-skinned in a country that's about the outdoors.
Nicole Kidman
#47. 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.
Nicole Kidman
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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?
Nicole Kidman
#51. It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.
Nicole Kidman
#52. 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
#53. I don't like changing with the wind; I like sticking to my own self.
Nicole Kidman
#54. Regrets are ridiculous, so I don't regret, no.
Nicole Kidman
#55. 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
#56. Whatever you do in life, don't give up on your own dreams.
Nicole Kidman
#57. 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
#58. The first person I ever really got starstruck over was Nicole Kidman, because I looked up to her. When I was younger, I wouldn't get parts because of how tall I was. I had the body of a 15-year-old but the face of a 12-year-old. I always looked at Nicole Kidman and thought, 'Oh well, she works.'
Liana Liberato
#59. I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.
Nicole Kidman
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. I just feel my way through. If I had to give an acting class, I wouldn't know what to do.
Nicole Kidman
#63. Two of the things to look out for are that operational cash flows should match or be close to profit levels, and current assets should exceed current liabilities.
Matthew Kidman
#64. My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was 'Oh my God! It's over for her now!'
Nicole Kidman
#65. 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
#66. The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.
Nicole Kidman
#67. I do believe there is enormous possibility to change this world.
Nicole Kidman
#68. The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience.
Nicole Kidman
#70. I think love is the core emotion. Without that, and I've certainly existed without that, it's a very empty life.
Nicole Kidman
#71. I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers.
Nicole Kidman
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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.
Nicole Kidman
#75. Now I can wear heels. (on divorcing Tom Cruise)
Nicole Kidman
#77. You have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you're starting again.
Nicole Kidman
#78. 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.
Nicole Kidman
#79. I'm reserved. I'm more of an introvert than an extrovert.
Nicole Kidman
#80. You have to love, without judgment, every actor that you're working with to make beauty.
Nicole Kidman
#82. I didn't really care about my physical health; I only cared about what was on screen.
Nicole Kidman
#83. 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
Nicole Kidman
#85. The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth.
Nicole Kidman
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. In my heart I'm independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.
Nicole Kidman
#91. Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.
Nicole Kidman
#92. 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
#93. I kept looking for happiness, and then I realized: This is it. It's a moment, and it comes, and it goes, and it'll come back again. I yearn for things, but at the same time I'm just peaceful.
Nicole Kidman
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. If I were a strategically minded person, I think I would have a far different career.
Nicole Kidman
#98. Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.
Nicole Kidman
#99. Ultimately, you're left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion.
Nicole Kidman
#100. 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
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