Nicole Kidman Quotes

I don't really celebrate fame because I get enough attention. It's very easy to fall in love when things are great, but the way to really fall in love is when things aren't great. I want to be in places I've never been before. You can still fight when someone can't talk. I got married really fast and really young. If I were a strategically minded person, I think I would have a far different career. Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job? People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we're all going to die, so how do you want to live? I'll put it out there: I love getting hugs. I don't mind being naked. Cinema is a director's medium, so you're saying, 'What do you want?' Being an actor is about adapting - physically and emotionally. If that means you have to look great for it and they can make you look great, then thank you. And if you have to have everything washed away, then I'm willing to do that too. You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about. 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 don't like changing with the wind; I like sticking to my own self. Acting runs through my blood. There is some sort of creative desire to express myself and I would need that outlet. Otherwise I would be a nightmare to live with I'm spontaneous. I jump in. I kind of like getting married and then getting to know each other; I know that it sounds incredibly strange, but to me, it's a more natural process. I look for roles that show women as independent, informed, and free to make their own decisions. It's good to have a little distance. If you discuss your love too much, it just damages it. I'm always interested in films that are about extreme subject matters. I think love is the core emotion. Without that, and I've certainly existed without that, it's a very empty life. I'm now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way. I'm not drawn to stories that are just sort of fluffy. I'm just not, and I've tried to, and as a kid I was never drawn to them. I always chose complicated. Now I can wear heels. (on divorcing Tom Cruise) The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience. I have a passion for my work, and that can seep into you. It's almost as if you're drawn to it. As much as I have films and all that sort of stuff, a lot of my memories are to do with relationships and love. I credit literature for the reason I act because that was the door to me saying, 'Oh! I can be somebody else. I can exist as someone else.' 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. You start out with big dreams and I mean, big dreams artistically. You want to work with the greatest living directors, make a great movie. I wanted to make a great love story, I wanted to make a great epic and then you realize that the truth of it is that it's so hard to make a great film. It's hard to get a great role. Those big expectations change to realism pretty quickly. But what's never changed is my desire to work with great directors and to find projects that push me out of my comfort zone and keep me alive. I I have always tried to be a woman who protects other women. I have a sister, I have daughters, I have girlfriends, and I was raised by a feminist mother.