Nicole Kidman Quotes (84 Quotes)

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.

Neither Cruise nor Kidman has been able to talk about him without getting emotional, Time reports. We're so proud of the movie, ... but we have this strange feeling about its success. Stanley was always around. And now he's gone.

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

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 love working with people who are inspired and obsessive.

Having gone through all of this, I feel in some ways calmer now. It's strange, but sad. I think I'll always be sad.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I have a lot of friends who say to me 'That's so bleak, why would you take that' ... I do believe there is enormous possibility to change this world.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

I told my mother everything.She explained the effect drugs would have on my body,how many brain cells I was destroying.She knows me, so that had an effect... but I never was addicted to them. I get a huge depression after drugs. I was lucky.

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

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 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 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.

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

I hope that this will be a lifelong commitment for me.

President Robert Mugabe 's government has attacked the suspense thriller The Interpreter, ... Zimbabwe's enemies did not rest.

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've never been so excited to have people walk all over me for the rest of my life.

Despite such a set-up, Cruise played it straight as he accepted the award. He paid a lengthy tribute to Kubrick, who died in 1999 just after finishing work on Eyes Wide Shut, ... a recognition of the magnificent power that films possess to effect positive change in the world.

I was so sick of playing the serious sort of roles. But now I feel I can go back to them. Though once you're hooked, you're hooked.

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

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

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.

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 all sorts of things do help, in terms of Buddhism, in terms of therapy. I think people choose things that they need that are going to help them. And obviously, I've seen my father do some magnificent work.

I do think there are times in your life where you are able to believe those kinds of things

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.'

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.