Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
-
I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
-
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
-
Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
-
Leading from behind doesn't work.
-
You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
-
'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
-
We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.
-
I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.
-
Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
-
I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
-
In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
-
For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
-
I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.
-
I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.
-
I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
-
Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
-
Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.
-
The minute my hair went, I shaved it. Thank God it became kind of cool. I just have really big ears.
-
The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting its status at the service of peace, respect for human rights and development.
-
It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically black experiences.
-
I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.
-
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
-
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.
