Nicole Kidman Quotes
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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.
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The more you love, the more you crave.
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I have a passion for my work, and that can seep into you. It's almost as if you're drawn to it.
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I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.
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As a producer Big Little Lies is the stories of women that I know, and it was a way in which we could go to other women and say, "Here's a great role. There's five great roles here. They're all complicated. They all deserve to be told, and are you interested?" And that is rare.
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Now I can wear high heels again.
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I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.
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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.
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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.
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Happiness, that's obviously different for everybody, but what I call my joy, the thing that makes me feel incredibly satiated, is my family, and then I get to go and play out all of my ideas and feelings through all these different characters.
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Now, after divorce with Tom Cruise, I can wear heels.
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If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.
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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.
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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 perceiving you.
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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.
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I'm reserved. I'm more of an introvert than an extrovert.
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I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In my heart I'm independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.
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The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.
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Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.
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You start out with big dreams and I mean, big dreams artistically. You want to work with the greatest living directors, make a great movie. I wanted to make a great love story, I wanted to make a great epic and then you realize that the truth of it is that it's so hard to make a great film. It's hard to get a great role. Those big expectations change to realism pretty quickly. But what's never changed is my desire to work with great directors and to find projects that push me out of my comfort zone and keep me alive. I still don't think I've done my best work.