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

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It’s a self-own delivered with a smile, the kind that lets Nicole Kidman look both dazzling and disarmingly human in the same breath. “I wouldn’t want to be married to me” is not a confession of unworthiness so much as a preemptive strike against celebrity mythology: the idea that a famous woman is automatically “easy,” polished, and perpetually camera-ready at home. Kidman flips that script by implying she’s complicated, perhaps demanding, maybe even a little intense. The punchline lands because it’s an intimate admission posed as a joke, a way to make the inaccessible feel suddenly relatable.

Then she tags it with “but luckily Tom Cruise does,” turning private life into public spectacle on her own terms. Name-dropping her husband isn’t just marital gratitude; it’s a savvy acknowledgment that their relationship is already a media product. By saying the quiet part out loud, she drains it of tabloid poison. It’s also a subtle power move: she frames the marriage as a choice Cruise is making, but she’s the narrator. In one line, she gets to be the flawed person and the in-control celebrity.

Context matters: this comes from an era when female stars were expected to be agreeable in interviews, never prickly, never “difficult.” Kidman uses humor to smuggle in complexity. The subtext is: you don’t get to define me as perfect, and you don’t get to punish me for being real.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Kidman, Nicole. (2026, January 15). I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-wouldnt-want-to-be-married-to-me-but-luckily-153921/

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Kidman, Nicole. "I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-wouldnt-want-to-be-married-to-me-but-luckily-153921/.

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"I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-wouldnt-want-to-be-married-to-me-but-luckily-153921/. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.

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Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman (born June 21, 1967) is a Actress from Australia.

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