"I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does"
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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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| Topic | Husband & Wife |
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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.






