Quotes from Nicole Kidman

Since I have fair skin, I have to stay out of the sun. I can't stand the sun. I dyed my hair red for a while during the 1990s but I'm actually a natural blonde.

And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud.

As an actor timing is important, especially as a mother with small children, so a lot is chance.

There'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.

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

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

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.

I have a boy's body. I would prefer to have more curves because I think that's more beautiful. I would much rather have J. Lo's body than mine.

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.

I 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.

Don't you worry about a thing, my darling. You live your life.

You can't find peace by hiding from life.