Nicole Kidman Quotes

You can't find peace by hiding from life

Well, I can wear heels now.

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

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.

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

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

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

I do believe there is enormous possibility to change this world.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

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 find standing and posing for photos very awkward.

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

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

I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.

I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.

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.

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."

We worked with Jean-Marc [Vallée] [on Big Little Lies] in terms of finding [style]. Because when you have five women, you're trying to find how they each dress and how they present themselves to the world.

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.

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.

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

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

The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.

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

I don't mind being naked.

Sometimes as an actor you're struggling to make things work. That was never the case for me with [Big Little Lies script]. It just kind of flowed out.

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.

I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.

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

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

The more you love, the more you crave.

They give us access to another world, they give us access to dreams. It's our way of living in a different realm for a short period of time - and how beautiful is that?

For me, my storyline [in Big Little Lies] is very complicated and nuanced. [The script] was so beautifully written. It was very, very easy to play. ... I think one of the scenes is almost eight minutes.

The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.

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.

I want to be in places I've never been before.

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

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

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

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.

Probably the biggest compliment someone can give you is, "Gosh, you look great. You don't look tired."

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

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 think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.

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

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

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.