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 KIDMANNo 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 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’m willing to fly close to the flame.
NICOLE KIDMANI don’t like changing with the wind; I like sticking to my own self.
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 KIDMANAs much as I have films and all that sort of stuff, a lot of my memories are to do with relationships and love.
NICOLE KIDMANI love acting but I don’t like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are perceiving you.
NICOLE KIDMANI’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.
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 can’t find peace by hiding from life.
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 KIDMANIf you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.
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 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 KIDMANI refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.
NICOLE KIDMAN