Nicole kidman quotes

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

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.

Breathe and don't try to be perfect.

That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

~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.~

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself.

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.

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

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.

I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

I would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me, it really upsets me. If something makes me angry, I get really angry. But it's all very upfront. I can't hide it. I'm also loyal and I hope I'm fun.

I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.

I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.

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

I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.

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.

I'll put it out there: I love getting hugs.

You don't have to be naked to be sexy.

If you're going to be with someone, you're with them, you're committed to them. I'm not sort of flitting around.

I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.

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

If you take care of the woman in the family, the whole family prospers. But when the mother falters, the family falls apart.

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

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."

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.

The more you love, the more you crave.

Ultimately, you're left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion.

You've got to find your bliss as a human being, because if you can follow that, everything else falls into place.

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

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.

I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.

You can't find peace by hiding from life

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

People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we're all going to die, so how do you want to live?

If I ever feel that this is dangerous or I'm scared of it, then that probably draws me more towards it.

LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.

You start out with big dreams and I mean, big dreams artistically. You want to work with the greatest living directors, make a great movie. I wanted to make a great love story, I wanted to make a great epic and then you realize that the truth of it is that it's so hard to make a great film. It's hard to get a great role. Those big expectations change to realism pretty quickly. But what's never changed is my desire to work with great directors and to find projects that push me out of my comfort zone and keep me alive. I still don't think I've done my best work

Stay out of the sun, because it is the worst thing in terms of aging. I'm very medical. I come from a medical family.

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.

Since I have fair skin, I have to stay out of the sun. I can't stand the sun. I dyed my hair red for a while during the 1990s but I'm actually a natural blonde.

Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.

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.

They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay. I personally don't believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff. Tom does. That's what he wants to do, that's what he's going to do. You do not tell Tom what to do. He is a force to be reckoned with.

The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.

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

Acting runs through my blood. There is some sort of creative desire to express myself and I would need that outlet. Otherwise I would be a nightmare to live with

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.

I have a boy's body. I would prefer to have more curves because I think that's more beautiful. I would much rather have J. Lo's body than mine.

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.

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

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.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

It's very easy for a couple to experience joy together. But when you experience pain together, it can lead to such depth and such union. That is when you fuse.

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.

I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive.

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.

I like the privacy of my life and I protect it quite vigilantly.

I believe the experiences of life are more important than any film you make.

Yippee! I can't believe I made it. It feels like a long haul to get here. I'm so fine with it. People want you to have some sort of breakdown, but I'm relieved to be 40 years old, and I've lived a life.

I'm willing to fly close to the flame.

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.

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.

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

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.

In my heart I'm independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.

I don't like changing with the wind; I like sticking to my own self.

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.

It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.

I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.

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

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.

The things that go on in my head are far more interesting than what actually happens.

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

I don't really make decisions, I go with the flow.

Have no regrets. Every relationship leads you to where you're meant to be. Learn to be comfortable with being alone. Learn to be comfortable with saying no to people; we put everybody else before ourselves. Read great literature; don't get all your information from TV. Define your moral code - nobody else is going to give you that. Find it yourself. Keep asking questions, keep challenging. You don't have to conform. Rebellion creates character. And, as my mother always said to me, "Don't let anyone break your spirit!"

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

People say that jealousy is the greatest enemy of love. They’re wrong. The greatest enemy of love is boredom.

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.

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 think if you have someone to love and someone who loves you, that's the greatest beauty secret.

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.’

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.

Happiness, that's obviously different for everybody, but what I call my joy, the thing that makes me feel incredibly satiated, is my family, and then I get to go and play out all of my ideas and feelings through all these different characters.

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

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.

Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.

There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists.

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

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.

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.

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.

I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I've always felt is a sign of respect for others.

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.

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

I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them.

Whatever you do in life, don't give up on your own dreams.

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.

Men don't pay you for sex, they pay you to leave after sex.

Having your work be the basis of fame, that's a far more stable feeling.

It's good to have a little distance. If you discuss your love too much, it just damages it.

It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!

I don't believe in having body doubles for a film.

I like exploring life and its complexities.

I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

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

Don't you worry about a thing, my darling. You live your life.

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

I try never to be governed by fear; that's how I choose things.

Regrets are ridiculous, so I don’t regret, no.

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

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.'

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

If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.

I have a passion for my work, and that can seep into you. It's almost as if you're drawn to it.