Quotes from Nicole Kidman

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.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby.

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.

Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.

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.

You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.

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 think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.

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 want to go home at night and feel discomfort.

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'

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.

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.

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.

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

The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.

I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.

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

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

Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.

You'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.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

It's strange, but sad. I think I'll always be sad.