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
I hope that I can act as a conduit, that I can be the person who tells some of these stories. The way in which I was raised and the things I've seen in my life has led me toward this.
I just feel my way through. If I had to give an acting class, I wouldn't know what to do.
You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it.
I look at everything I’ve done critically - but I think that’s the job of an actor. If you ever sit on your laurels or think that you’re good - in a way, I don’t then think you’re pushing yourself.
Dealing with these emotions as an actress is like being a boxer put into the ring.
My path was to be an actor and it’s been very good to me in life. It’s broadened my horizons and given me a lot of gifts.
I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect.
An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.
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.
Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.
You have to love, without judgment, every actor that you're working with to make beauty.
Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.
I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you.
I think particularly with this it's a theme that runs through a lot of my films which is the love a mother has for a child .