Top 40 Nicole Kidman Quotes

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.

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.

Not to be too detailed, but I’ve had an ectopic pregnancy, miscarriages and I’ve had fertility treatments. I’ve done all the stuff you can possibly do to try get pregnant.

My choices in films are spontaneous.

I got married really fast and really young.

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

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

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

Once I start putting all my little insecurities in my mind, I’m not actually acting. Then it’s about me – and it should never be about me. It should be about the character.

I just want to be nominated; beggars can’t be choosers.

I don’t mind being naked.

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 was fair-skinned in a country that’s about the outdoors.

To be honest, I am completely natural. I have nothing in my face or anything. I wear sunscreen, and I don’t smoke. I take care of myself and I’m very proud to say that.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 wouldn’t want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.

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.

I’m drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.

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’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.’

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

What’s the point of doing something good if nobody’s watching.

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

I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.

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.

My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was ‘Oh my God! It’s over for her 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’ll put it out there: I love getting hugs.

I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can’t believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps.

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

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

I never read reviews at all. I’m proud of the work I did.

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.