Top 160 Nicole Kidman Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I’d rather walk a tightrope than have my feet on the ground.”

— Nicole Kidman

102. “I’ll put it out there: I love getting hugs.”

— Nicole Kidman

103. “I would rather be tough on myself than have other people be tough on me.”

— Nicole Kidman

104. “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.”

— Nicole Kidman

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

— Nicole Kidman

106. “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.”

— Nicole Kidman

107. “It’s taken me 40-something years, but I embrace the curl. My littlest daughter has the same hair. She likes it when my hair is curly, so I wear it for her.”

— Nicole Kidman

108. “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.”

— Nicole Kidman

109. “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.”

— Nicole Kidman

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

— Nicole Kidman

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

— Nicole Kidman

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

— Nicole Kidman

113. “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.”

— Nicole Kidman

114. “I wouldn’t want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.”

— Nicole Kidman

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

— Nicole Kidman

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

— Nicole Kidman

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

— Nicole Kidman

118. “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.”

— Nicole Kidman

119. “I want to go home at night and feel discomfort.”

— Nicole Kidman

120. “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.”

— Nicole Kidman

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

— Nicole Kidman

122. “I don’t like changing with the wind; I like sticking to my own self.”

— Nicole Kidman

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

— Nicole Kidman

124. “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.”

— Nicole Kidman

125. “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.”

— Nicole Kidman

126. “I never knew I’d be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.”

— Nicole Kidman

127. “I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive.”

— Nicole Kidman

128. “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.”

— Nicole Kidman

129. “I like bold directors. I like directors that go against the norm in a way...”

— Nicole Kidman

130. “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.”

— Nicole Kidman

131. “I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.”

— Nicole Kidman

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

— Nicole Kidman

133. “It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.”

— Nicole Kidman

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

— Nicole Kidman

135. “My choices in films are spontaneous.”

— Nicole Kidman

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

— Nicole Kidman

137. “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.”

— Nicole Kidman

138. “I don’t really make decisions, I go with the flow.”

— Nicole Kidman

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

— Nicole Kidman

140. “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.”

— Nicole Kidman

141. “I love acting, but it’s much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.”

— Nicole Kidman

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

— Nicole Kidman

143. “I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.”

— Nicole Kidman

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

— Nicole Kidman

145. “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.”

— Nicole Kidman

146. “I’m especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women.”

— Nicole Kidman

147. “I’ve always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then also kind of like to have just the white picket fence life if that makes sense.”

— Nicole Kidman

148. “You aren’t really anybody in America if you’re not on TV.”

— Nicole Kidman

149. “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.”

— Nicole Kidman

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

— Nicole Kidman