Nicole Kidman Quotes
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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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Why do a crappy film role when you can do a meaty stage role? and ...I'm not small and curvy and I don't fit the prerequiste for small, passive, sexy chicks.
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As an actor you're only as good as the things you're offered. And there just weren't any female directors offering me things. So when you dissect that, you realize there aren't women offering you things because they don't have the opportunities. I work to raise money for women's cancers; I use my voice for violence against women.
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I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career.
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I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.
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I dig my heels in every now and then, and think 'I'm not going to do what's expected or what people think is the right thing.' So I have a little bit of that in my personality.
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That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story.
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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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Your confidence grows as you get older, particularly when you're in a loving relationship. Everything strengthens.
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I want to be contributing and working with people that I like and love, and this was the perfect combination.
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You live a third of your life when you dream. So you may as well live in your dreams the way you want to be living. The way you want to be.
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People say that jealousy is the greatest enemy of love. They’re wrong. The greatest enemy of love is boredom.
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I've always been somebody on a journey of discovery.
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I am very shy - really shy - I even had a stutter as a kid, which I slowly got over, but I still regress into that shyness. So I don't like walking into a crowded restaurant by myself; I don't like going to a party by myself.
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The things that go on in my head are far more interesting than what actually happens.
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What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching.
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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.
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I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself.
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It was very natural for me to want to disappear into the theatre, I am really very shy.
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I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.
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Divorce is divorce and it's a really tough thing to go through, but I'd love to get married again.
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If you're going to be with someone, you're with them, you're committed to them. I'm not sort of flitting around.
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I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I've always felt is a sign of respect for others.
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When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.