Nicole Kidman Quotes

I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.

At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.

I just have always felt as long as I'm 100 percent honest, then it's just me. It's a lot easier to sleep at night that way.

What I do is that I really, really try hard to make sure the things that I do comes from a pure place in my heart and my intent is a pure one.

All I can say is that you have to live with your conscience at the end of your life, and it's the only thing that you have that belongs to yourself and nobody else.

It's a full time job - trying to be at peace in my life, trying to be a better person and be best in every way I can be, be a good brother, be a good actor and a good human being.

Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

I'm not trying to be something I'm not. I know what I believe in. I know my morals and I know what I have to offer.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.

Being nice to everybody, saying hello to everyone in the room, signing every autograph; it was instilled in me at a very young age that this was what I was suppose to do. But I don't think it helps at all. I see more people who are rude or arrogant being rewarded - but, this way, I can put my head on the pillow at night.

Humility is truth.

I hope people remember me for the kind of person that I am, not because of what I do.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.

I know how I want to try and live my life. I know I don't want to leave any darkness behind me.

What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

Think before you act and act on what you believe.