Nicole Kidman on Tom Cruise Marriage: Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie Can Understand

Nicole Kidman graces the cover of Vanity Fair‘s December 2013 issue!

Here’s what the 46-year-old actress had to share with the mag:

On her marriage to Tom Cruise becoming intoxicating: “There is something about that sort of existence that, if you really focus on each other and you’re in that bubble, it’s very intoxicating, because it’s just the two of you. And there is only one other person that’s going through it. So it brings you very close, and it’s deeply romantic. I’m sure Brad and Angelina have that�”because there’s nobody else that understands it except that person who’s sleeping right next to you.”

On the beginning of her marriage to Tom: “With no disrespect to what I had with Tom, I’ve met my great love now. And I really did not know if that was going to happen. I wanted it, but I didn’t want it for a while, because I didn’t want to jump from one relationship to another. I had a lot of time alone, which was really, really good, because I was a child, really, when I got married [to Cruise]. And I needed to grow up.”

On having a family: “There’s an enormous amount you have to give up if you want to have a family. You can have a certain career, but you can’t be living in Hollywood, [where] absolutely everything, everything revolves around it. That wasn’t my choice. I’d rather revolve around somebody else’s career and then still find my own.”

For more from Nicole, visit VanityFair.com. Bigger cover inside…