Catholicism will keep me going. I'm a Catholic girl. It will always stay with you."
"He is a total pleasure to work with. He put me at my ease and made me laugh. Now I'm seriously thinking of getting a tattoo like his." - on Robbie Williams
"It was fun. I think Robbie is very talented." - on Robbie Williams
"Robbie is a sweet soul and a great singer. His version of Mr Bojangles made me cry." - on Robbie Williams
"Robbie and I have become good friends and that's all. It's not what people might think, but Robbie is irresistible because he is so much fun to be around. He's a very funny man. He also gives me amazing confidence. I usually get frightened when I'm singing because I'm worried about my voice. I always feel like it's going to let me down, but he just threw away my fears with his enthusiasm and encouragement. I've been breaking through my fears a kit this year and Robbie has helped me do that."
"Dating Robbie? Who said that? I’m also dating about five other people. He’s actually very sweet and very shy and I’m very shy so you have two very shy people. Was he predatory and pushy? Not at all. He was a perfect gentleman. Maybe I don’t know enough about his reputation. But I take people at face value. He’s been charming and good to me - and that’s all."
"It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!"
"Now I can wear heels." - commenting on her break-up with Tom Cruise - August 2001
"I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily he does." - on Tom Cruise
"Every day there is a compromise. Living with somebody requires a lot of understanding. But I love being married. I really love it. Sometimes I try to downplay it a bit because people are like, 'God you guys.' I just feel so fortunate that I have found someone who will put up with me and stay with me." - on her marriage to Tom Cruise - August 2000
"I have a little bit of a belly, a tiny bit of pooch. It's the one thing I don't want to lose. I just like having some softness. If I lose that, then Tom might leave me."
"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 preceving you."
"There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists."
"When you're in your teens it's all, boys, boys, boys, but ultimately you realise it's about taking care of your girlfriends. They're the ones who are constant. Boys come and go, but the girls, they stay. And thats why you should acknowledge friendships you cherish."
"Why do a crappy film role when you can do a meaty stage role? and ...I'm not small and curvy and I don't fit the prerequiste for small, passive, sexy chicks."
"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've never been so excited to have people walk all over me for the rest of my life" - When receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, January 2003
"I think that you have to live life to the full, otherwise you have nothing to draw on."
"Whatever you do in life, don't give up on your own dreams."
"To live a really full life, you must stay open."
"If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion."
"I believe the experiences of life are more important than any film you make."
"The thing for this year is live for the moment, live for the day."
"Anything that involves suffering or pain, makes you a wiser person. You acquire compassion, understanding."
"Move forward one day at a time, keep smiling, and remeber that tomorrow is another day."
"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."
"When I first moved to America, I was madly in love, following my heart and willing to throw caution into the wind, which is how I live my life."
"There seems to be so much relevance attached to success and money. It's about creatively being satiated and being able to go, I've made some movies that I'm really proud of. I've existed in the world in a way that I've wanted to exist. I've been a parent as good as I can be, because it's riddled with guilt. And I've loved, and I've been emotionally involved in the world. The success is ultimately your connections with people - who you have in your life that loves you and you love."
"The power of work, and the power of creativity, can be your salvation."
"I do believe in lust at first sight. And then i think you're very lucky when that evolves into something a lot deeper. Lust and love somehow combined, I feel is the best thing for a relationship."
"I think you know it's love when you're making sacrifices. When you're willing to say this person is more to me than other things. When it becomes about wanting the other person to have everything that they want."
"Pain passes, but love remains, says so much about what I think life is about."
"No matter what goes in your life or what experiences you had in the past, you can always fall in love."
"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."
"There is a beautiful line in the script about how the dead gives us gifts. And for me, Virginia gave me a gift. That’s what’s quite strange about the whole experience: At that time in my life I needed her. I needed to play her." - On playing Virginia Woolf.
"It[the Portrait of a Lady] taught me to aprroach life seeking honesty and not to fear emotion. A lot of the time you walk around thinking 'I've got to be together, I've got to be sane.' Isabel says 'if i feel upset, I'm going to cry.'"
"Henry James and Jane Campion taught me something about myself that it's alright to be emotional and vulnerable and all those things that lead you to a deeper understanding of yourself."
"When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness."
"When I heard about the Suzanne role in To Die For, I thought, 'I'll never get it - it'll be offered to someone else.' So I called Gus [Van Sant] at home, and he took my call, thank God. I told him I'd seen Drugstore Cowboy, and I really wanted to work with him. I said I was destined to work with him."
"I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine."
"These different people that I play become the loves of my life."
"I would love to have boobs and a butt like Jennifer Lopez but I'm not having surgery so there it is"
"You want to take some responsibility in your choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses - so for me doing Lars von Trier, I would hope that says to another generation: 'go and seek out those directors, it's ok'."
[On Dogville] "One day it would be a fairytale, the next it was a nightmare. Lars was gentle with me - he was gentle and soft, then he would beat me up emotionally when he felt he needed that. I did not always register what was happening until afterwards but you shouldn't have too much awareness as an actor, I don't think."
"Acting for me is not a business, it's about trying to make pieces of art that I believe that I feel proud of. And it's the journey of that. There is no drive behind that. It's an acceptance of what my life is and that's being an actress and somebody who loves what they get to do. And they do it whether you pay me which sometimes happens. Or whether you don't pay me which also happens. I am dedicated to it."
"I worry about the children; I worry about their future. I worry about my future. I’m quite a worrier. I can lie awake at night and worry. I can wake up at 3:00 AM and not be able to get back to sleep, that sort of thing."
"You get asked the same things over and over. Just once I'd love to be asked about my work. You know, my future projects, something like that."
"I loved Madonna. At the time I was a teenager going to clubs and listening to her music. She was our heroine. It’s so great that Britney Spears is now paying homage to her."
"With every character, you alter, you can’t be attached to your own identity."
"I had such admiration for people who can stand up and just get by on pure charisma, because I certainly don’t have that."
"When the idea finally hits, it goes down your arm into your hand through your fingers into the pen and on to the page rapidly" [from The Hours DVD commentary]
"When I see a guy going out with a taller girl I immediately like him . It shows he's confident."
"Even though nobody in my family acted, I think we are all performers in one way or another. We all like to express ourselves."
"I am someone who likes to put her cards on the table. I like to be able to talk to people about who I am, what I am, what I experience. I like to be very open and free about all parts of my life."
"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 the closed doors"
"My mother was a strong feminist and a tough lady, and my father always used the phrase when we were growing up: 'With love, but firm'. Believe me, I grew up with all the rules and guidelines and boundaries. My sister and I were only allowed to watch half an hour of television a day!"
"They came close to divorce many times, so yelling and screaming that it's all over-none of that scares me. My mother moved out once, I think, for a couple of weeks, so I don't have a fear of people not coming back."
"I adore her for her intelligence, her wit and what she gave up to help me and my sister. She worked through our childhood but she was always there for us and gave us a great education and belief in our own power" [Nicole about her mother Janelle]
"I learned to cross my eyes at school. In Australia you all sit on a mat while the teacher writes on the blackboard. We'd get so bored, we'd have eye- crossing competitions. I got quite good at it."
"I was doing ballet clases at four, and I have always loved masks."
"I was one of those terrible kids who said everyone's lines" [Nicole about her first role at the age of five]
"I wanted to be one of the lambs, because that was the comedy part. When Mary was rocking the baby Jesus, I went 'Baaaa, baaaa, baaaa', and of course everyone was in hysterics! This stupid kid trying to upstage Jesus as a sheep! I got laugh and that was it. I thought, 'Wow-this is fun!'"
"My parents were always extremely suportive. They allowed me any artistic outlet I wanted."
"Each weekend I'd go to the theatre at Phillip Street. I used to just lock myself in there for the whole weekend. I thought it was fantastic. I'd be teased a lot though, because I'd be going off to the theatre instead of going to the beach with the boys and all the girls. I felt like an outsider because of that."
"All the other mums would make these beautiful little sandwiches, but my daddy would just put a slab of butter on top of the bread and then say: 'Whatddaya want-peanut butter?' Wouldn't cut it and would't wrap it properly, so by the time you opened it at school it was all stale, and all the kids would tease us."
"He ran 8 miles at lunchtime, and I used to get terribly embarrassed when the kids at school saw him running, as he'd be all sweaty and look like hell."
"There has always been conversation over the dinner table and I have always been encouraged to question. That's great for an actor."
"He has brought me up to believe in certain issues, definite values. He encouraged me to find time off by myself to meditate every day. He swears by that." [Nicole about her father Antony]
"At home I was always been taught to demand a lot of myself, and I think that stands you in good stead."
"He would take me to modern dance - I'd be sitting next to my dad and fully- grown men would be walking around, totally naked. My parents overeducated me- my sister and I were so embarrassed."
"When I was growing up in Australia , the beautiful look was straight blonde hair and olive skin. I was fair-skinned redhead. I used to pray for God to gave me tanned skin but if I tried to tan, I'd go red and peel. So I had to put zinc oxide on my nose, wear sun hats and cover up."
"My curly hair embarrased me. I'd spend ages trying to blow-dry it straight."
"It is character-building not be a pretty chikd. You can't rely on batting your eyelashes and saying, 'Please can I have this?' You develop other stranght."
"Theatre was a place where I could go and just be somebody else. I was like, 'I hate who I am, I hate how I look, I hate how I feel with all these hormones racing through my body.'"
"It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theatre, 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."
"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 ctress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead."
"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."
"Tom's not gay, to my knowledge. I can assure you my husband is no monk. He's the best lover I've ever had and he's a very sexual guy."
"There is a little Buddhism, a little Scientology, I was raised Catholic and a big part of me is still a Catholic girl. There are still things that will stay with me for the rest of my life in relation to my Catholicism, the tradition and ritual."
"Whether I gave a birth to a child or not, is not even an element that exists now. If more are added to the family, more will be, but that is a very personal thing. It isn't anybody else's buisiness."
"He is kind of wild, and I love that." - about Tom Cruise
"Free fall parachute jumping-there is nothing like it when you are up there at 14,000 feet with the cold air hitting your face. It is an amazing sansation-not as good as sex, but almost! You actually fall for about forty- five seconds."
"You have those times when you say, 'I just want to curl up in a ball and never get out of bed', and then you have a six-year-old coming in and going, 'Where is the breakfast?'"
"I had a really good response over there (America). They're into Australian girls at the moment. They just find us very strange, apparantly. I suppose we're a bit rougher round the edges and a lot more laid back."
"I remember finishing the film being more exhausted than I'd ever been in my life. Creatively, I didn't want to make a movie again after I'd finished this one" [on Moulin Rouge]
"The Others feels like forbidden fruit for me in a way. I was in Batman Forever, but I've never had my movie be a hit movie. It gives me power now to do something else a little bit offbeat, and they'll finance it. I'm surprised at it's success. I just thought I was making this strange atmospheric little thriller with dark undertones" [on The Others]
"It gives you a depth and selflessness that, particularly as an actor, you just don't have. It does open a lot of feelings that maybe you're not dealing with or maybe haven't realised were inside you". [on parenthood]
"Everybody is obsessed with Bewitched. I get asked so many questions about it. I'm glad. It's fun. It's a lot of fun. Will Ferrell is just a sweetheart."
"I loved the show. I grew up watching the show; that's why I wanted to do it. [It was on in Australia at] 6 o'clock every weeknight for many, many years. I've seen almost every episode." [on Bewitched]
"In the weirdest way, it has opened me up. I have carried the thought with me that whatever happens in the future, it won't get much worse than this. I have had my life turned over. I am dinner-party gossip. I get looked at and talked about. I get embarrassed, but I throw it aside and try not to be. My whole life has been spent trying to push through and beat such things." [on her divorce]
"I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me."
"I was willing to give up everything ... The marriage existed because it was two people in love. It's that simple ... He basically swept me off my feet. I fell madly, passionately in love."
"They've said I'm gay, they've said everyone is gay. I personally don't believe in doing huge lawsuits about that stuff. Tom does. That's what he wants to do, that's what he's going to do. You do not tell Tom what to do. He is a force to be reckoned with. "I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care. Honestly, people have said everything under the sun. I just want to do my work, raise my kids, and hopefully find somebody who I can share my life with again."
"I'm starting to understand now. At the time, I didn't." [when asked (in 2002) about her divorce] |
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