Quotes from Nicole Kidman

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.

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into the theatre, I am really very shy.

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

You live a third of your life when you dream. So you may as well live in your dreams – the way you want to be living. The way you want to be.

What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching.

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.

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

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.

People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we're all going to die, so how do you want to live?

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.

I never knew I'd be in a musical, let alone win an award for one.

I don't mind being naked.

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.

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

My choices in films are spontaneous.

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.

I look for roles that show women as independent, informed, and free to make their own decisions.

I love that ["Big Little Lies"] is about women coming together and making something happen very quickly, with friendship being the core of it.

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

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.

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.

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

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