Nicole Kidman Quotes

Acting is an everlasting search for truth.

Be it 120 frames or 24 frames or film or theatre, you're trying to be a fully formed human being and trying to be honest.

When I take up a film or role, I don't want to be fake; I don't want to wear a mask. I want to be myself.

I don't know how to put on an act; I always show myself for what I am, in whatever mood I'm in.

I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

Acting is about being real, being honest.

You can bring truth to anything, whether it's a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy. As long as you show up to play, I don't think you can go wrong.

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

I've been given lots of great advice, in my life. As an actor, just being as honest and as present as you can be.

The moment I do any puppy dog acting, I think the joke is dead. It's in the truth of how I play it, and the real painful honesty that I approach my performance with.

The whole point about vision is that it's very individual, it's very personal, and it has to be confessional. It has to be something which hurts - the pulling out of it and putting it on the page hurts. Art can be about the individual writer's response to his or her condition, and if that response comes out of a predigested belief about what the audience wants to hear about the writer's condition, then it has no truth, it has no validity. You either write with your own blood or nobody's. Otherwise it's just ink.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.

The worst acting is about imitation.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

On stage you can get away with a lot more in the sense of emotion and truthfulness. But the camera is the eye of God. It sees everything.

All I've ever tried to do is play real people.

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

I always write what feels really true and honest and me.

I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.