Nicole Kidman Quotes

One of the reasons I took up acting was to learn to be more human, to get in touch with human emotions.

I would just like to be able to give to people through acting. If I can entertain people by being somebody else and allow somebody to feel something, then that makes me feel good.

I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.

As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.

There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.

In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.

I love intimacy, always, of performing.

With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I'm performing this. This is how I'm presenting it to you.' There's something really scary about that, but there's also something next-worldly about it, too.

When I write songs, when I sing songs, I don't have anybody in mind. I'm just trying to express what I think people are feeling.

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

I'm drawn to people who share that sense of loss. All actors are trying to repair damaged relationships. I think that might be why I've been drawn to other actors.

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.

I don't consider myself as a great painter; I just feel that art is about expressing your emotions and expressing your feelings, and music is the same way; you can see what other people are going through.

I think it's so important when you're playing a character that you can't judge the person you're playing at all. It's a judgment-free zone. You have to just go for it.

That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share.

I feel that nudity is sort of what we do as actors.

When I step on the stage and sing 'Wait for It,' I'm singing that for everybody. I don't mean I'm singing it for them; I mean, you are their voice.

Ideally, it would be cool to actually get to know artists enough to know what their feelings are, what they believe in, what they want people to get from them, what they represent.

Honestly, my goal is just to let people hear my story and just like, feed everybody that could relate to my story in any way.

I like to show love in a way that will bring a smile or a tear to viewers.

The true meaning of an artist/actor is opening my heart to the audience and, at the same time, opening their heart.

When I discovered drama, I felt a connection.