Nicole Kidman Quotations | Page 2

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

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 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.

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.

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.

If you've got red hair, try washing it in cranberry juice. And, if you're blonde, a champagne rinse can work wonders.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm willing to fly close to the flame.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women

That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story.

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

The more you love, the more you crave.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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'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.

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

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.’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Why do a crappy film role when you can do a meaty stage role? and ...I'm not small and curvy and I don't fit the prerequiste for small, passive, sexy chicks.

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.

I want to be tested beyond my comfort zone. I don't want to be safe if it is more interesting to be dangerous.

Well, I can wear heels now.

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 look at everything I’ve done critically - but I think that’s the job of an actor. If you ever sit on your laurels or think that you’re good - in a way, I don’t then think you’re pushing yourself.

There's just something about women and shoes, it's the luxury, it's the femininity and it's the attention to detail. You can put a lot of work into your dress but if you have the right shoe and bag then you feel good.

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.

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

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.

You can't find peace by hiding from life

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

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

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

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 love lying in darkness.

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

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.

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.

I don't mind being naked.

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

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 am very shy - really shy - I even had a stutter as a kid, which I slowly got over, but I still regress into that shyness. So I don't like walking into a crowded restaurant by myself; I don't like going to a party by myself.

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

Now I can wear heels. (on divorcing Tom Cruise)

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

I'm not drawn to stories that are just sort of fluffy. I'm just not, and I've tried to, and as a kid I was never drawn to them. I always chose complicated.

I think love is the core emotion. Without that, and I've certainly existed without that, it's a very empty life.

I’m always interested in films that are about extreme subject matters.

You aren't really anybody in America if you're not on TV.

You live a third of your life when you dream. So you may as well live in your dreams – the way you want to be living. The way you want to be.

You have to love, without judgment, every actor that you're working with to make beauty.

I love just sitting quietly meditating. With an hour free, it depends. I love getting down on the floor and playing with my kids.

I didn't really care about my physical health; I only cared about what was on screen.

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.

I've always been somebody on a journey of discovery.

Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.

You'll nip anybody who's coming at you with bullshit. You don't play around. You take this craft very seriously. It's what separates you, what separates an actor from an artist.

If I was in Sydney, I love the beach. Even though I'm incredibly pale, I put on these terribly long unattractive rashies, and people laugh at me. My kids laugh at me. But that's what I would do.

I'm spontaneous. I jump in. I kind of like getting married and then getting to know each other; I know that it sounds incredibly strange, but to me, it's a more natural process.

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

You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses.

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

Now I can wear high heels again.

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

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.

My choices in films are spontaneous.

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

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

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.

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.

With every character, you alter, you can’t be attached to your own identity.

I'm reserved. I'm more of an introvert than an extrovert.

Divorce is divorce and it's a really tough thing to go through, (But) I'd love to get married again.

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