Nicole Kidman Quotes
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You can't find peace by hiding from life.
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Don't worry about something going away; enjoy it while it's happening. And don't worry about something that's not even real.
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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.
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I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.
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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.
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I was fair-skinned in a country that's about the outdoors.
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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.
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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.
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It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.
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In particular, for my character, Celeste in Big Little Lies, there was a way in which we wanted to present her, because she has sort of barriers that she has to put up for protection because of things that are going on in her life. Yet she wants to be, I suppose, very presentable but neutral.
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Don't you worry about a thing, my darling. You live your life.
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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.
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Ultimately, you're left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion.
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You have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you're starting again.
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If you take care of the woman in the family, the whole family prospers. But when the mother falters, the family falls apart.
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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.
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I want to be with people I really like. I don't want to be working on things with people that I'm not happy to be there with.
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I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.
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As a woman now, I want to share things. I have girlfriends in their twenties, and I say, "Ask me anything. You can learn from the things I did wrong, and you can learn from the things you think I'm doing right. Take whatever you want and make it your own."
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Someone has to die in order that the rest of should value life more. It's contrast.
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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.
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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.
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You have to love, without judgment, every actor that you're working with to make beauty.
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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.