Russell Crowe - "Nicole is nurturing by instinct, loyal beyond question, wise beyond her years. Her friendship is a constant gift of joy. Since I’ve known her I've always put her on a pedestal, not because she is untouchable, simply because she deserves my respect, for the bravery she applies to her work and the thoroughness with which she attends to life."



Baz Luhrman - "Being around Nicole is like being around electricity."



Sam Neill - "I like that mischievous, pixieish thing that she has. You know how some people, when you're around them, they make you feel more alive? That is her great gift. There's an old Australian expression - 'You wouldn't be dead for quids." It means no money on earth could substitute for the joy of life. She loves being alive."



Baz Luhrman - "It's like Sleeping Beauty. You feel that she's awoken, not from something terrible, but you feel she's in full bloom. You look at Nicole and see this woman in full possession of her power as an actress, her sexuality, and her sense of self. And it came out of the chrysalis of that experience."



Renee Zellweger - "She's an unusually intelligent and strong woman. We inspired each other creatively. I count her as one of my true friends."



Renee Zellweger - Good Housekeeping Magazine May/June 2003-
[Interviewer]"You've got two movies coming out before the end of the year. You've just made Cold Mountain with Nicole Kidman and Jude Law. Having worked with Nicole, how did you feel when she won the Oscar for Best Actress this year?"
[Renee] "I really felt like all the women there that night were girlfriends of mine, and I really love Nicole. We had a good time working in freezing cold Romania together. She's just so kind, and when she laughs, it's the most wonderful thing in the world, because she becomes like a little girl. [Joking] It's just a shame she's so unattractive, you know?"



Robbie Williams - "When I was told I was meeting Nicole Kidman ... I was like, ‘How am I going to get through this and not look like an idiot or try to lick her face? But we got on really well and chatted and I just had a real blast with her."



Robbie Williams - "Nicole has a beautiful voice. I heard her sing in Moulin Rouge and I asked if she would be interested, fully expecting to be knocked back - she's a proper Hollywood star. But she said yes. I was amazed and thrilled."



"She remains the same unspoiled and most professional person she always was-never forgetting firends and colleagues." - Director Denny Lawrence on how fame has never changed Nicole's life.



"She's wildly alive and great fun and hugely loving and wants to go tothe party and dance all night" - Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours



"Underneath Nicole Kidman is just a fun-loving Aussie girl who just happens to be famous." - Iain Glen, co-star of The Blue Room



"She is so elegant and at the same time is very human with a delicious sense of humour. Oh, a great sense of humour. You can tell she loves to laugh and laughs well." - AC Lyles, AMPAS member



"Every day I am with her, I still have this magnetic attraction to her-I can't keep my hands off her." - Tom Cruise about Nicole in 1996



"Nicole was a very striking girl, but then there were a number of talented young girls at the school at that time" - Janet Grace, school librarian



"She's just one of these great women and she's always been thought of as very classical and period, and a highly serious trained actress. She is all that, but she's also hilariously funny so I loved playing with that surprise" - Griffin Dunne (Practical Magic director)



"I know when I was writing Dead Calm I kept saying "Nicole for the lead role". I think they were all thinking "Oh, he's fallen in love with her." Well it's not true, but I did feel very protective towards her". - Terry Hayes, who co-wrote Vietnam, and Dead Calm


"She never stopped working and getting inside her character's head. You look at some of these people and wonder why they have done so well. With Nicole, it was clear. She has all the talent, but never lets it get in the way of hard work. She's also down-to-earth and could tell jokes very easily.The film crew fell in love with her." - Viggo Mortensen, Nicole's Portrait of A Lady co-star


"She's one of those actresses whom you're slightly in awe of. You imagine her as the movie star from the front covers of magazines, that she's untouchable and that somehow gets in the way of her being human and funny. But she really is good fun. You meet her and discover she's just funny and girly. She's really giggly and you can make her laugh - a lot! I'd be very rude in front of her, swear and belch, and she'd say "Ew-an! - like a big sister with her younger brother." - Ewan McGregor


"I put her on a level with Hattie Jacques." - Eric Sykes, Nicole's The Others co-star


“Nicole was very much on my side. So they couldn’t really carve a wedge between myself and her. She was the shield; even though she didn’t have to say anything, she was there." - Jonathan Glazer, (Birth director)


"I didn't send her the script. She read it through another route and called me up about it. I was resistant to the idea. I didn't want all the stuff that comes with her. Her celebrity is so everywhere that I thought it could only hurt the delicate nature of this character. But, when I met her, that all went away. She was ready to inhabit the role. I could see it, I could smell it off her." - Jonathan Glazer, about Birth


“There was no politics with Nicole. She’s a really good actress and she commits herself to whatever she’s doing, so the relationship with her was easy. I never felt that star power going on. It’s only when you look around at the people standing off-camera that you realise it’s a different scale. I was initially reluctant to work with her because of the expectations that brings. But at the same time she was the best actress for that role.." - Jonathan Glazer, (Birth director)


"Everything about Nicole is a plus in this. Her slight aloofness, sometimes. The sense of privacy or aloneness, a little bit of aristocracy that she has and a certain exoticness, foreignness, for Americans anyway. She also provides a believability that she would hold two passports and would be quite international. They all seemed quite right for Nicole." - Sydney Pollack on casting Nicole for The Interpreter



"Nicole and I are forever. Our ties are strong, deep...it was love at first sight. Since we married 10 years ago we've stayed totally in love with each other. When I am with her I know that fairytales exist." - Tom Cruise, March 2001



"I'm the guy, the lucky guy." - Tom on being married to Nicole, December 1998



"She is that rare thing: a wonderfull actress, a wonderful soul possessed of that skinlessness that the camera is that greedy for, which allows us to glimps all of her frailties, her sarrows, her joys, her good heart. She manages all of those things with grace, style and an astonishing work ethic ... I marvel at her ... no writer or director could be more blessed then a journey with her." - Anthony Minhella



"She is an amazing actress... When the camera starts rolling she is extraordinary. Early on I realised she had an authority and a sense of command astonishing in someone so young." - Robert Benton (when directing her in Billy Bathgate)



"Nicole is an actress whose remarkable beauty and talent and determitation has brought her the kind of success that only comes in dreams." - Adrien Brody



"She has an insatiable appetite to explore new worlds and characters. Her range is quite extroardinary. Nicole is a powerful person in our industry." - Lauren Bacall



"I will always admire you, Nic. You have always blown me away with your commitment to your art. You are an extroardinary actor. With every preformence you get braver and braver, and you continue to suprise all of us.... You have directors duelling over you and producers crawling over broken glass begging you to say yes." - Naomi Watts (American Cinematheque Award 2003)



"You used to be my secret, my dirty little secret. There was a time when I was the only one who knew how great you were, but you've been giving so many wonderfull performances, now the whole world knows. The secret is out. Here's another secret folks. This is just the beginning... There is even more greatness to come. You are the princess and I am but a member of your audience." - Russell Crowe



"I think Nicole is one of the most incandescent presences on the screen. Ever. I really think she's an alien. She looks like it. She can do anything. The woman is just ... there's something about her that's otherworldly." - Shirley McLaine



“I’m a real fan, she’s in the Meryl Streep category, she’s that good. She’s a very interesting person to observe if you’re a student of human nature, which I am and she is. Almost not of this world.” - Shirley McLaine



"The talented one that I’ve worked with recently, that I find extraordinarily unworldly, is Nicole (Kidman). Now what happens to her when she, at 5’11”, decides to eat a lot, which she does, I don’t know. But her talent is there." - Shirley McLaine



"She is luminescent and one of the best actresses I've ever worked with. She says she's waiting for someone to sweep her off her feet. I mean, wow, when you have all that beauty, why would you want anyone to give you directions for where to float?!" - Shirley McLaine