Nicole Kidman Quotes

Nicole Mary Kidman, AC is an Australian actress, producer, and occasional singer. She is the recipient of a number of awards, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and the Silver Bear for Best Actress.

Kidman began her acting career in Australia with the 1983 film Bush Christmas. Her breakthrough came in 1989 with the thriller Dead Calm and the television miniseries Bangkok Hilton. In 1990, she made her Hollywood debut in the racing film Days of Thunder, opposite Tom Cruise. She went on to achieve wide recognition with leading roles in the romantic drama Far and Away , the superhero film Batman Forever , the crime comedy-drama To Die For , for which she won a Golden Globe Award, and the erotic thriller Eyes Wide Shut . She received two consecutive Academy Award for Best Actress nominations for playing a courtesan in the musical Moulin Rouge! and for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in the drama film The Hours ; she won the award for the latter, and received Golden Globes for both films.

Kidman continued to star in commercially successful films, including the horror-thriller The Others and the epic war drama film Cold Mountain , as she achieved critical acclaim for roles in independent films, including the dramas Dogville , Birth , Rabbit Hole , for which she received a third Best Actress Oscar nomination, and the thriller The Paperboy . Following a period of critical and commercial failures, Kidman earned a fourth Oscar nomination for playing a troubled mother in the biopic Lion . She returned to television in 2017 with a highly acclaimed performance as a victim of domestic abuse in the HBO miniseries Big Little Lies, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress and Outstanding Limited Series as a producer.

Kidman has been a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF since 1994 and for UNIFEM since 2006. In 2006, Kidman was made a Companion in the Order of Australia, and was the highest-paid actress in the motion picture industry for that year. As a result of being born to Australian parents in Hawaii, Kidman has dual citizenship in Australia and the United States. Kidman founded and owns the production company Blossom Films. Following her divorce from Tom Cruise, Kidman has been married to the singer Keith Urban since 2006.

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Famous Nicole Kidman Quotes

“I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.”

Dame Magazine http://www.damemagazine.com/entertainment/f384/TheWitandWisdomofNicoleKidman.php

“I telephoned Lauren and thanked her for saying that. She always calls it like it is and that's a reality check I adore.”

At the Venice Film Festival 2004, after co-star Lauren Bacall had said that Kidman was not an acting legend, but rather a beginner; quoted by Pocklington Arts Centre http://www.pocklingtonartscentre.co.uk/film+feature/Birth

“It wasn't about, 'Oh I want to make a film where I get to kiss a 10-year-old boy'. To me it was I wanted to make a film where you're trying to understand love.”

During a Press Conference at the Venice Film Festival 2004, on the polemic scene from her movie, "Birth"; quoted in Jamaica Gleaner http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20040909/ent/ent2.html

Nicole Kidman Quotes

“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.”

Dame Magazine http://www.damemagazine.com/entertainment/f384/TheWitandWisdomofNicoleKidman.php

“I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children!”

In an interview in early 2004
Dame Magazine http://www.damemagazine.com/entertainment/f384/TheWitandWisdomofNicoleKidman.php

“Now I can wear heels.”

On divorcing Tom Cruise
Dame Magazine http://www.damemagazine.com/entertainment/f384/TheWitandWisdomofNicoleKidman.php

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