Nicole Kidman Quotes
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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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When I was working with Stanley Kubrick on "Eyes Wide Shut", he would always say, "You never tell the audience what to feel. Let them choose to have their responses."
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Well, I can wear heels now.
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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'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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I want to go home at night and feel discomfort.
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The accumulation of experience gives you a debt in terms of compassion. I am very fortunate, and I feel dedicated to giving back to other women. Wherever I am now, I make sure I visit a women's shelter. But I don't want to do it in a frivolous way.
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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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Whatever you do in life, don't give up on your own dreams.
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I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.
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Refuse to let your circumstances make you bitter. Do what you must to make them better.
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To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That’s why, when people meet you and you seem very together, they are quite surprised - they don’t see you behind closed doors.
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You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses.
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I do have to say my daughter, Sunday, said to me I was being overprotective, so you must have been a fly on the wall.
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You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.
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Acting for me is not a business, it's about trying to make pieces of art that I believe that I feel proud of. And it's the journey of that.
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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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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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My mother said I was always an intense child, a very sensitive child. So that probably helped the emotions to be very present. I was just a big thinker. I would evaluate and analyze and feel and cry and discuss and be angry. All of those emotions were very surface for me.
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I suppose the underlying current for me is the idea of not doing something I've done before. I call myself a character actor and I'm always trying to stay a character actor.
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I love lying in darkness.
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Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.
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I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect.
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Breathe and don't try to be perfect.