Nicole Kidman Quotes

I am a director's actress in general - I depend a lot on them.

I have realised I am a director's actor.

An actor can be as talented as another, but if he doesn't stick to what the director's intentions are, it all falls down. I adore working with actors.

It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.

I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.

I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.

I am completely a director's actor. If the director gives me the liberty and freedom, then I give my inputs. Otherwise, I just follow instructions.

I'm a director's actor and go by what they say.

Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.

I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

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

As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.

Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

I love actors, both my parents were actors, and the work with actors is the most enjoyable part of making a film. It's important that they feel protected and are confident they won't be betrayed. When you create that atmosphere of trust, it's in the bag - the actors will do everything to satisfy you.

My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.

I understand what it is that actors do. They embody someone that they aren't.

I have been a scrappy actor for 10-plus years, and when you're playing supporting roles, your relationship with the costume designer is very different.