Nicole Kidman Quotes
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I never like to tell people what they should take.
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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 love is the core emotion. Without that, and I've certainly existed without that, it's a very empty life.
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I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby.
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I'm not saying it's for everyone, but it's better to be alone than in a lousy relationship.
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Regrets are ridiculous, so I don’t regret, no.
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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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There's something to be said for going back to a simple form of living-nature and family. There's something very...there's safety in that.
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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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You're either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you're going to be a voyeur. And I'm not a voyeur.
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I would rather be tough on myself than have other people be tough on 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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Well, I can wear heels now.
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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.
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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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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 thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.
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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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I'm interested in going places that I haven't been. And I'm interesting in working with people that I feel are dangerous and sort of push me in different places.
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If you're intuitive and you have a desire for people to be happy and you want equilibrium and you want life to be good, then you'll worry. But we need to embrace the idea that, "No, I'm putting that aside, over there, in a box. I'll open that box when I wake up in the morning and deal with it then." I really find that men tend to do that, and it's great to be able to do.
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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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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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Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?
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Part of our job as human beings is to share our knowledge and share the things we've learned. So we can either save people from making the same mistakes, or give them hope.