Nicole Kidman Quotes
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I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.
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I was told I had a two per cent chance of getting pregnant, so I say she's a two per cent baby.
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I would rather be tough on myself than have other people be tough on me.
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I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby.
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There are moments when you feel as if you have been blessed for a while, moments when you think this is perfect, moments when you start to believe that even for an hour, even for a year, it might all happen. So I'm determined to keep making it get better and better.
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If you're intuitive and you have a desire for people to be happy and you want equilibrium and you want life to be good, then you'll worry. But we need to embrace the idea that, "No, I'm putting that aside, over there, in a box. I'll open that box when I wake up in the morning and deal with it then." I really find that men tend to do that, and it's great to be able to do.
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Part of our job as human beings is to share our knowledge and share the things we've learned. So we can either save people from making the same mistakes, or give them hope.
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I try never to be governed by fear; that's how I choose things.
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Dealing with these emotions as an actress is like being a boxer put into the ring.
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I have a little bit of a belly, a tiny bit of pooch. It's the one thing I don't want to lose. I just like having some softness. If I lose that, then Tom might leave me.
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I think if you have someone to love and someone who loves you, that's the greatest beauty secret.
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You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses.
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I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive.
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I do have to say my daughter, Sunday, said to me I was being overprotective, so you must have been a fly on the wall.
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To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That’s why, when people meet you and you seem very together, they are quite surprised - they don’t see you behind closed doors.
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I do research. I do emotional sort of Method work. Somehow it’s a huge mishmash of things that becomes my own acting process and my own way of navigating through something. But ultimately the desire is to be honest, and for that truth to bleed through into your work and onto the screen.
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I suppose the underlying current for me is the idea of not doing something I've done before. I call myself a character actor and I'm always trying to stay a character actor.
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You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.
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I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'
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Acting for me is not a business, it's about trying to make pieces of art that I believe that I feel proud of. And it's the journey of that.
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I want to go home at night and feel discomfort.
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When I was working with Stanley Kubrick on "Eyes Wide Shut", he would always say, "You never tell the audience what to feel. Let them choose to have their responses."
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Breathe and don't try to be perfect.
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I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect.