Quotes By Nicole Kidman

I want to go home at night and feel discomfort.

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

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.

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

I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.

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

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.

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

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.

My choices in films are spontaneous.

Having gone through all of this, I feel in some ways calmer now. It's strange, but sad. I think I'll always be sad.

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.

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

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.

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

You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.

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

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.

Since I have fair skin, I have to stay out of the sun. I can't stand the sun. I dyed my hair red for a while during the 1990s but I'm actually a natural blonde.

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

My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was 'Oh my God! It's over for her now!'

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.