Quotes from Nicole Kidman

The journey of life - we all go through it: You have love, you lose love, you find new love. To have love again is a beautiful thing.

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.

I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.

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.

I'll put it out there: I love getting hugs.

It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.

As much as I have films and all that sort of stuff, a lot of my memories are to do with relationships and love.

I'm now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.

I love lying in darkness.

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

I want to be contributing and working with people that I like and love, and this was the perfect combination.

Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.

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.

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.

The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience.

I think if you have someone to love and someone who loves you, that's the greatest beauty secret.

I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.

I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.

You don't have to be naked to be sexy.

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.

I think love is the core emotion. Without that, and I've certainly existed without that, it's a very empty life.

You have to love, without judgment, every actor that you're working with to make beauty.

Divorce is divorce and it's a really tough thing to go through, (But) I'd love to get married again.

If I was in Sydney, I love the beach. Even though I'm incredibly pale, I put on these terribly long unattractive rashies, and people laugh at me. My kids laugh at me. But that's what I would do.