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Actress
Born On
1967-06-20
Birth Place
Honolulu
Birth Sign
gemini
Father
Antony Kidman
Mother
Janelle Ann Kidman
Spouse
Keith Urban (m. 2006), Tom Cruise (m. 1990–2001)
Nationality
Australian
Education
Australian Theatre for Young People, Phillip Street Theater, North Sydney Girls High School, University of Melbourne Faculty of VCA and MCM
Film & Theater Personalities, Actresses

Did you know that popular Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman is a huge fan of Bollywood movies. Her first tryst with Indian cinema was during the time she was working on her Oscar winning project Moulin Rouge. She and director-producer Baz Luhrmann would spend hours screening Bollywood movies and apparently that is when the actress fell in love with them.

Here's the story of the time how chat show host Jimmy Fallon blew up his chance to date her. During her appearance on the Saturday Night show, Jimmy reminded the actress of their first encounter. To which Nicole replied 'Oh, I remember.' She then persuaded Jimmy to tell the audiences about that day.

Jimmy recalled how one of their mutual friends who was with Nicole in New York City that day called up and asked if he was free then he could bring her to his apartment. He agreed instantly and went to pick some cheese and crackers for Nicole. At this point Nicole interjected saying, 'I liked you.' Taken aback by what the Academy winning star just said, he said, 'What?' Nicole then went about explaining how their mutual friend had arranged for a date as she was single. A flummoxed Jimmy replied, 'Wait. What? What are you talking about?'

She then recounted how Jimmy was dressed in sweats and was wearing a baseball cap when he greeted her in. The encounter turned more awkward as Jimmy did not speak much and would only reply in monosyllables when needed. Finally he put up a video game and Nicole humorously adds, 'It was bad' and also revealed that she wondered if the humorist was gay.

After overcoming his embarrassment Jimmy later said, 'I can't believe I dated Nicole Kidman.' 'You didn't,' she replied.

I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.

Nicole Kidman

That goes against what I believe morally. That's adultery, and if I'm accused of that, no, that's not right. I have two kids who see that and remember that and judge me. It didn't happen, and it's not to be reported that way.

Nicole Kidman

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

Good
Nicole Kidman

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

People
Nicole Kidman

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Desire Future Happiness
Nicole Kidman

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.'

Positivity Feelings Future
Nicole Kidman

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

Nicole Kidman

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.

World
Nicole Kidman

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.

Life Rest
Nicole Kidman

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

Life
Nicole Kidman

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

Love Acting Fun
Nicole Kidman

I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.

Love Struggles
Nicole Kidman

I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.

Nicole Kidman

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

Time
Nicole Kidman

I'll put it out there: I love getting hugs.

Love
Nicole Kidman

You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.

America
Nicole Kidman

I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.

Nicole Kidman

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.

Hope
Nicole Kidman

They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay. I personally don't believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff. Tom does. That's what he wants to do, that's what he's going to do. You do not tell Tom what to do. He is a force to be reckoned with.

Nicole Kidman

To be honest, I am completely natural. I have nothing in my face or anything. I wear sunscreen, and I don't smoke. I take care of myself and I'm very proud to say that.

Nicole Kidman

If you're going to be with someone, you're with them, you're committed to them. I'm not sort of flitting around.

Nicole Kidman

My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was 'Oh my God! It's over for her now!'

Life People
Nicole Kidman

I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

Wisdom
Nicole Kidman

Not to be too detailed, but I've had an ectopic pregnancy, miscarriages and I've had fertility treatments. I've done all the stuff you can possibly do to try get pregnant.

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.

Nicole Kidman

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

Focus
Nicole Kidman

There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists.

Dress
Nicole Kidman

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

Nicole Kidman

I don't believe in having body doubles for a film.

Body
Nicole Kidman

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.

People Smile Vision
Nicole Kidman

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.

Life Age
Nicole Kidman

I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it.

Light
Nicole Kidman

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.

Body
Nicole Kidman

Yippee! I can't believe I made it. It feels like a long haul to get here. I'm so fine with it. People want you to have some sort of breakdown, but I'm relieved to be 40 years old, and I've lived a life.

Life People
Nicole Kidman

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.

Good Love Relationship
Nicole Kidman

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.

Anger Respect Forgiveness
Nicole Kidman

I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.

Nicole Kidman

I like the privacy of my life and I protect it quite vigilantly.

Life Privacy
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.

Nicole Kidman

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.

Love Trust
Nicole Kidman

I never read reviews at all. I'm proud of the work I did.

Work
Nicole Kidman

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.

Love Past Future
Nicole Kidman

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

Nicole Kidman

My choices in films are spontaneous.

Selection
Nicole Kidman

Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again.

Life People Work
Nicole Kidman

I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive.

Love People
Nicole Kidman

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.

Life
Nicole Kidman

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

Nicole Kidman

I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.

Love People Internet
Nicole Kidman

Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it.

Love Understanding
Nicole Kidman

I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection.

World
Nicole Kidman

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.

Character Power
Nicole Kidman

The loss of a child is the most terrifying place for me to go.

Nicole Kidman

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.

People
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.

Family
Nicole Kidman

It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!

Nicole Kidman

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.

Imagination Parents
Nicole Kidman

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

Baby
Nicole Kidman

I don't really make decisions, I go with the flow.

Nicole Kidman

Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, 'What do you want?' Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too.

Greatness
Nicole Kidman

I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.

Life
Nicole Kidman

I want to be in places I've never been before.

Nicole Kidman

It's very easy to fall in love when things are great, but the way to really fall in love is when things aren't great.

Greatness Love
Nicole Kidman

I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.

People
Nicole Kidman

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

Nicole Kidman

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.

Relationship
Nicole Kidman

I would rather be tough on myself than have other people be tough on me.

People Tough
Nicole Kidman

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

People
Nicole Kidman

I want to go home at night and feel discomfort.

Night Home
Nicole Kidman

I got married really fast and really young.

Nicole Kidman

Having your work be the basis of fame, that's a far more stable feeling.

Work Feelings
Nicole Kidman

You can still fight when someone can't talk.

Nicole Kidman

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

Relationship Desire Things
Nicole Kidman

I don't mind being naked.

Mind
Nicole Kidman

I don't really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.

Fame
Nicole Kidman

Once I start putting all my little insecurities in my mind, I'm not actually acting. Then it's about me - and it should never be about me. It should be about the character.

Character Mind
Nicole Kidman

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.

Angel Character
Nicole Kidman

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

Country
Nicole Kidman

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.

Fear
Nicole Kidman

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