342 Quotes by Nicole Kidman

It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.

If I packaged toothpaste and told you you were gonna get half the toothpaste in the tube, you probably wouldn't buy it.

I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.

have to play a 22-year-old, and she's nearly 40. ... They said, 'How about Hilary Swank?' I said, 'Great, fine, whoever.' I would have said, 'Great, fine, whoever,' if they had said Roseanne Barr. I stopped paying attention because I'm focusing on my future, not my past.

I'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.

I think Daniel will just smoke in it. He is such an accomplished actor.

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 say to the writers, please keep writing for us, we're very interesting. And to the directors, please keep taking chances and giving us complicated, rich characters to play.

Dealing with these emotions as an actress is like being a boxer put into the ring.