Nicole Kidman Quotes

I think what I realized is that I can't believe I made it to 50 years old.

I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.

Unlike Frank Sinatra, I have no regrets in my life. Zero. Whatever hardships I have faced, or have caused myself, are moments I have to embrace in order to move forward. I have no problem coming to grips with either the highs or lows in my life.

Everyone who reaches a milestone birthday in their lives has an opportunity to truly appreciate the fact that presumably we have acquired all the gifts that maturity and age can bring us.

Me finding my confidence took me a while, but now I love that I went through everything I did before to get to where I am now.

By 40, all women are amazing.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

I am very thankful that I have lived the life I have lived. I am thankful for my Graves' disease, and I tell people, if I had my whole life to live over, I would have it, because it has really made me into the person that I am.

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

Life does throw some hard stuff at you as you get older, much harder. But you are more able to deal with things.

I don't regret anything I've gone through.

Some people say, I'd give anything to be 30 again. Well, I really wouldn't. I didn't enjoy being 30.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

When I look back on my twenties, I just remember being afraid of everything, and in my thirties, I'm actually excited by things. And if things don't work out, you know, by the time you've hit your thirties, you've had your fair share of disappointments.

I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.

I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, 'Wow, this was awesome!'