The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.
NICOLE KIDMANThe thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.
NICOLE KIDMANI 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 KIDMANYou have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you’re starting again.
NICOLE KIDMAN~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It’s always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.~
NICOLE KIDMANStay 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 KIDMANThere’s something to be said for going back to a simple form of living-nature and family. There’s something very there’s safety in that.
NICOLE KIDMANSometimes 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.
NICOLE KIDMANI’m interested in going places that I haven’t been. And I’m interesting in working with people that I feel are dangerous and sort of push me in different places.
NICOLE KIDMANI 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.
NICOLE KIDMANI’d like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I’m willing to go through a lot.
NICOLE KIDMANI try never to be governed by fear; that’s how I choose things.
NICOLE KIDMANI dig my heels in every now and then, and think ‘I’m not going to do what’s expected or what people think is the right thing.’ So I have a little bit of that in my personality.
NICOLE KIDMANI 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.
NICOLE KIDMANI don’t like changing with the wind; I like sticking to my own self.
NICOLE KIDMANForget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.
NICOLE KIDMANYou’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.
NICOLE KIDMAN