Nicole Kidman.

Usually, a Young Actress Can’t Deliver Because She Doesn’t Have the Emotional Baggage, Really, to Play Those Things. That’s Something That’s Very Beautiful About Becoming a Woman, and Becoming a Woman in Your 30S. If You’ve Lived Your Life, and Lived It Where You’ve Said, I Want to Be a Participator and Not a Voyeur, Then You Have an Enormous Amount to Pull On.

I’m Still Just Finding My Way Through. I Don’t Actually See a Path in Front of Me. I Can See Not Ever Doing It Again, and I Can Also See Other Things Pulling Me Away from This. It’s Strange, Because I Know It’s in My Blood in Terms of Having to Somehow Act or Express Myself Creatively, but I’m Willing to Do It Different Ways If Need Be. and I Think That’s Partly Because When I Went Through My Divorce I Dealt with the Idea of Never Ever Working Again, and Never Being Here and Never Able to Be an Actress, and Went Through an Enormous Amount of Soul Searching, and at That Time, I Was Very Ready to Give It All Up, and Dealt with That Emotionally. I Was Going, Well, I’ll Never Be Able to Do This Again. and That Was OK. And, Strangely, as Life Is so Strange, That Was When Everything Exploded.

I Never Feel Like I’m in Control. There’s a Certain Type of Actor That Relinquishes Control When They Act, and Then There’s Another Type Who Ends up Being a Producer and Director and They’re More Someone That Likes to Take Control. I Fall in the First Category, Where I Like to Relinquish Control, and Fit into Somebody Else’s World. and That’s Just Lately, but You Never Feel Like You Are Making Choices. You Feel Like They’re Finding You in a Strange Way. That’s Why When People Say, What Role Do You Want to Play Next?, I Say, I Don’t Know. I Never Know. It’s About Responding to Things Rather Than Planning.

So If You Talk About a Box-office Career, Then I’m a Disaster. but Somehow, You Know, I Still Manage to Find My Way to Work.

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.

I’m at a Time of My Life Now Where, for Me to Want to Go Back and Work, It’d Have to Be Something That I Really Feel Passionately About.

Regrets Are Ridiculous, so I Don’t Regret, No.

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.

By the Time I Was a Teenager, I Had Developed Skills as a Writer, and My Father Encouraged Me to Think About a Career in Journalism. I Began Keeping a Diary, Which I Maintain to This Day. I Used to Fill Whole Notebooks with My Writings.

My Parents Thought It Was Nice to Develop My Imagination, but They Never Seriously Thought That Anything Would Ever Come of It. They Said That I Couldn’t Be an Actress Because I Would Be Taller Than All My Leading Men, so I Thought I Would Be a Writer Instead.

It Was Very Natural for Me to Want to Disappear into Dark Theater, I Am Really Very Shy. That Is Something That People Never Seem to Fully Grasp Because, When You Are an Actor, You Are Meant to Be an Exhibitionist.

Do You Know I’m Always Scared That One Day I’ll Look Back and Say God They Were the Best Years of My Life and Now What? 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.

It’s a Very Brave Thing to Fall in Love. You Have to Be Willing to Trust Somebody Else with Your Whole Being, and That’s Very Difficult, Really Difficult and Very Brave.

Since I Have Fair Skin, I Have to Stay Out of the Sun. I Can’t Stand the Sun. I Dyed My Hair Red for a While During the 1990S but I’m Actually a Natural Blonde.

I’d Like to Be Wise. You Have to Go Through a Lot to Get There, but I’m Willing to Go Through a Lot.

What’s the Point of Doing Something Good If Nobody’s Watching?

Even from a Very Early Age, I Knew I Didn’t Want to Miss Out on Anything Life Had to Offer Just Because It Might Be Considered Dangerous.

I Believe That as Much as You Take, You Have to Give Back. It’s Important Not to Focus on Yourself Too Much.

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 Perceiving You.

I Never Knew I’d Be in a Musical, Let Alone Win an Award for One.