Nicole Kidman

Since I have fair skin, I have to stay out of the sun. I can't stand the sun. I dyed my hair red for a while during the 1990s but I'm actually a natural blonde.

I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.

I never read reviews at all. I'm proud of the work I did.

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.

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'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot.

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was 'Oh my God! It's over for her now!'

I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.

I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.

I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.

I would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me, it really upsets me. If something makes me angry, I get really angry. But it's all very upfront. I can't hide it. I'm also loyal and I hope I'm fun.

I like the privacy of my life and I protect it quite vigilantly.

I want to go home at night and feel discomfort.

Not to be too detailed, but I've had an ectopic pregnancy, miscarriages and I've had fertility treatments. I've done all the stuff you can possibly do to try get pregnant.

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.

Once I start putting all my little insecurities in my mind, I'm not actually acting. Then it's about me - and it should never be about me. It should be about the character.