Nicole Kidman Quotes
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I think if you have someone to love and someone who loves you, that's the greatest beauty secret.
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It's very easy to fall in love when things are great, but the way to really fall in love is when things aren't great.
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The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.
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It's the warmest, loveliest community I've ever set foot in. For me, it's the perfect place to live. It's the best part of America.
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I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive.
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Regrets are ridiculous, so I don’t regret, no.
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When you know psychologically what characters are feeling, then that plays out on how you dress a lot of times.
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I have a little bit of a belly, a tiny bit of pooch. It's the one thing I don't want to lose. I just like having some softness. If I lose that, then Tom might leave me.
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I do research. I do emotional sort of Method work. Somehow it’s a huge mishmash of things that becomes my own acting process and my own way of navigating through something. But ultimately the desire is to be honest, and for that truth to bleed through into your work and onto the screen.
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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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I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.
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There are moments when you feel as if you have been blessed for a while, moments when you think this is perfect, moments when you start to believe that even for an hour, even for a year, it might all happen. So I'm determined to keep making it get better and better.
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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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I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.
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I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'
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I try never to be governed by fear; that's how I choose things.
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As an actor you don't control the end result. Because you're a director, you get to control the end result. I think for us, we really have to show up and participate and give. And then let go.
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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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I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby.
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Dealing with these emotions as an actress is like being a boxer put into the ring.
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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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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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The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.
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You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.