Top 252 Quotes & Sayings by Nicole Kidman - Page 3

I'm very much an admirer of people who are reaching for things and trying to survive.

As a woman now, I want to share things. I have girlfriends in their twenties, and I say, "Ask me anything. You can learn from the things I did wrong, and you can learn from the things you think I'm doing right. Take whatever you want and make it your own."

If I fall over and make mistakes, I'll pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself with as much authenticity and moral code.

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.

I did try Botox, unfortunately, but I got out of it and now I can finally move my face again.

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.

I just have a desire not to judge and view things compassionately.

The journey of life - we all go through it: You have love, you lose love, you find new love. To have love again is a beautiful thing.

I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect.

Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, "What do you want?" Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too.

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.

~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.~

I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don't like the feel of butterflies' bodies.

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.

It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.

Now my ability to notice things and respond to things and be here is far more profound. With that comes happiness, with it comes sadness, but it's a beautiful life.

One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.

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.

I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.

Now, after divorce with Tom Cruise, I can wear heels.

Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.

I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are perceiving you.

I think we do need radicals. We need extremists, because that's how change happens.

I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.

I'm now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.

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.

Refuse to let your circumstances make you bitter. Do what you must to make them better.

I was told I had a two per cent chance of getting pregnant, so I say she's a two per cent baby.

My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was, "Oh my God! It's over for her now!"

It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.

I wear sunscreen, and I don't smoke. I take care of myself. And I'm very proud to say that.

The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth.

I've just always been interested in how people lead their lives. How they survive in this world. I'm curious about people's damage, and navigating that and the way people forgive. I find it really interesting. That's why we have to transform on a daily basis, work on ourselves. It's work.

Your confidence grows as you get older, particularly when you're in a loving relationship. Everything strengthens.

You have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you're starting again.

It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into the theatre, I am really very shy.

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.

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 only knew - inside I'm really frightened!'

I credit literature for the reason I act because that was the door to me saying, ‘Oh! I can be somebody else. I can exist as someone else.’

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

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.

The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience.

I think that divorce is hard for anyone. It's a nightmare - it just is - and you can pretend you're fine. And [there are] days you're great [and] days you're not great.

Dealing with these emotions as an actress is like being a boxer put into the ring.

These different people that I play become the loves of my life.

You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it.

I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then also kind of like to have just the white picket fence life if that makes sense.

I'm always happy to play the bad girl. I just get to have fun, and it's obviously all done with a smile.

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.

My path was to be an actor and it’s been very good to me in life. It’s broadened my horizons and given me a lot of gifts.

I still feel vibrant and alive that way. I'm in a marriage where we put an enormous amount into our marriage. I always say, there's me, there's my husband, and then there's the "us," the us that we create. That's what we really take care of. We never, ever take it for granted. We do everything we can to be together, not to be separated for periods of time. We're just a very, very tight family unit, and we're really kind to each other. I think it's so underrated; people don't appreciate the necessity of that in society now.

I just feel my way through. If I had to give an acting class, I wouldn't know what to do.

I look for roles that show women as independent, informed, and free to make their own decisions.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of should value life more. It's contrast.

And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud.

I'd rather walk a tightrope than have my feet on the ground.

As much as I have films and all that sort of stuff, a lot of my memories are to do with relationships and love.

Don't worry about something going away; enjoy it while it's happening. And don't worry about something that's not even real.

I'm not saying it's for everyone, but it's better to be alone than in a lousy relationship.