Nicole Kidman Quotes

I see myself as most people see themselves, you have good days and bad days. I don't think I'm better looking now than I did three years ago.

I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.

Mature? Yeah, I get told that a lot. I don't know if it's true. I guess I try to be bright.

I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

The beautiful thing is I have sort of grown up. I don't care if I'm highbrow or not anymore.

I remember early on, in my very, very early days, I had a makeup artist tell me that I needed to get an attitude. I had no idea what he was talking about.

I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become.

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

I think that insecurity/confidence balance is necessary.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

I'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But I think that's a good thing. You don't want to lose that.

My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I think it'll just come with getting older.

I never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.

I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you?

Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being just another girl, and people want to listen to what you have to say.