Nicole Kidman Quotes
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I always try to push through fear. I won't be crippled by it. People say, "Oh you take such risks", or "You're brave." And I'm like, 'Well, if you knew - inside I'm really frightened!' But the way people navigate fear and pain is fascinating... The more you feel, the stronger the pain. And the more you engage in life, the more you have to lose.
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I don't like changing with the wind; I like sticking to my own self.
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To appreciate the success you have to have had the failures. You have to accept that it is a journey and its not just tomorrow or the next day or next year.
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I never like to tell people what they should take.
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I have always tried to be a woman who protects other women. I have a sister, I have daughters, I have girlfriends, and I was raised by a feminist mother.
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You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.
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My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It's always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.
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My personality does well with people who are deemed difficult. I don't know why it does but I just seem to get along with them. The more difficult the better.
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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.
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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.
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My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was, "Oh my God! It's over for her now!"
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As an actor timing is important, especially as a mother with small children, so a lot is chance.
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I love lying in darkness.
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As much as I have films and all that sort of stuff, a lot of my memories are to do with relationships and love.
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It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.
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I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.
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I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.
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No matter how much you're going to be criticized or no matter how big of a risk it is, the boldness is the thing that helps you.
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When falling in love I think you should say to yourself, ‘I am going to do this fully.’ I love to the fullest extent that I possibly can - and why not?... Maybe this means there is going to be pain, but I am willing to accept the pain.
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I don't really make decisions, I go with the flow.
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Deep down am I superstitious? No. Do I believe in trying to be as kind as possible and as compassionate as possible because ultimately you're alone with yourself and your own conscience, and you want that to be as clear as possible? That's not superstition. You have to just try and stay pure and know what you value.
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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.
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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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It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.