Nicole Kidman Quotes

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.

I like working with different directors; it keeps you on your toes.

I love doing characters that challenge me. I'd love to do something that requires me to change physically or learn a skill.

Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that; you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.

It has been great portraying Gollum, but it will be great to see my face on screen for a change.

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

As a dancer, it's hard because there's such a perfectionist quality that you really have to let go of while you're acting, because nobody wants to a watch a perfect person on screen.

I want to do roles that will challenge me. I'm definitely interested in period pieces. But I definitely don't want to limit myself. I'm very open to different roles.

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough. The more they reveal themselves, the more we love them, but there's a lot of truth in what they're showing.

Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

When I do a film, I follow the director.

Acting is a community where you come in and out of each other's lives. I'm slightly envious of the Golden Age of Hollywood. It must have been frustrating to be owned by the studio, but it was also like being in a company, working with the same people, and that appeals to me.

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

I've always done character roles and tons of movies as the so-called star, but I always felt I was one of the team.

I don't want to be a glamour doll. I want roles which provide me the scope to perform.

Getting to work with good filmmakers and getting to play good characters in films is so special.

The upside to doing commercials is you have to work in a lot of different genres and make stuff that you never thought you'd be making.

I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.

Directing is a whole series of things that would be awkward socially. But I love that. I love actors. Talking with them, touching, laughing, crying.

As an actor, 'Chhichhore' has been one of the most creatively fulfilling projects and I thank my director Nitesh Tiwari for making me a part of his vision.

One rule which applies to every role is that you have to surrender yourself to the director with an empty slate.