Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman
Nicole Mary Kidman, ACis an Australian actress and film producer. Kidman's breakthrough roles were in the 1989 feature film thriller Dead Calm and television thriller miniseries Bangkok Hilton. Appearing in several films in the early 1990s, she came to worldwide recognition for her performances in the stock-car racing film Days of Thunder, the romance-drama Far and Away, and the hero film Batman Forever. Other successful films followed in the late 1990s. Her performance in the musical Moulin Rouge!earned her a...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth20 June 1967
CityHonolulu, HI
CountryAustralia
If you've got red hair, try washing it in cranberry juice. And, if you're blonde, a champagne rinse can work wonders.
You're either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you're going to be a voyeur. And I'm not a voyeur.
I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.
I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.
There's something to be said for going back to a simple form of living-nature and family. There's something very...there's safety in that.
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.
To appreciate the success you have to have had the failures. You have to accept that it is a journey and its not just tomorrow or the next day or next year.
Whatever you do in life, don't give up on your own dreams.
Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.
Breathe and don't try to be perfect.
I don't like changing with the wind; I like sticking to my own self.
Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
I believe the experiences of life are more important than any film you make.
Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.