Nicole Kidman Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

When you know psychologically what [characters] are feeling, then that plays out on how you dress a lot of times.

As an actor timing is important, especially as a mother with small children, so a lot is chance.

I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career.

It's very, very rare to find five roles in one piece where we'd all jump at the chance to play any of them.

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 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.

I think you put art out into the world, and sometimes it's divisive, sometimes it's embraced. Sometimes people cry, laugh or have complicated reactions.

[As a producer] [Big Little Lies] is the stories of women that I know, and it was a way in which we could go to other women and say, "Here's a great role. There's five great roles here. They're all complicated. They all deserve to be told, and are you interested?" And that is rare.

I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection.

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.

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.

Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.

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 don't really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.

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.

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.

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

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 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.

I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to. One of them for me is women and children's health around the world and their rights;the other is ovarian cancer.

I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

If I were a strategically minded person, I think I would have a far different career.

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

Breathe and don't try to be perfect.

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

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

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.

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

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

I want to go home at night and feel discomfort.

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

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.

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

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