ALL SOURCES FOUND ON THE 28TH JAN 09

http://entertainmentnow.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/nicole-kidman-may-retire-from-acting/

Terms of my future as an actor and stuff, I don’t know. I am in a place in my life where … I’ve had some great opportunities and I may just choose to have some more children. I’ve no idea what is in my future but I am very at peace with where I want to be…There are many things I want to do besides act.

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1567700,00.html

The Hollywood Reporter named Nicole Kidman the best-paid actress in the business. It’s an announcement that would have seemed well deserved…if this were 2002. That was the year when Kidman was evolving into the kind of rare Hollywood creature not seen since the days of Ingrid Bergman: an Oscar winner (for The Hours) who combined critical adoration (Moulin Rouge) with undeniable mainstream appeal (The Others).

But since then…slumming as a janitor in The Human Stain? Sharing a bathtub with a 10-year-old boy inBirth? Shaving Robert Downey Jr. in Fur? These offbeat indie choices might have made sense if Kidman’s career were cooking, but from 2003 to 2005, most of her prominent features — The Stepford Wives,Bewitched, and The Interpreter — disappointed big-time. As the paychecks keep coming (Kidman reportedly received about $16 million to star in the 2007 sci-fi thriller The Invasion), two questions arise: Is she worth it? And has she lost her golden touch? ”I’m interested in doing things that are unusual,” the actress told EW last summer. ”People try to say, ‘Be safe.’ And I always go, ‘No, I want to try to do things that, even if they don’t work, [are] at least bold.”’

http://defamer.com/hollywood/nicole-kidman/nicole-kidman-ascends-to-top-actress-earner-status-despite

Top earning actress.

http://nymag.com/nymetro/movies/features/10172/

You could argue that marrying Tom Cruise was the best career move Nicole Kidman ever made, but that would be just plain wrong. It was the second-best move. Divorcing Tom Cruise was the best, because it meant that, suddenly, she had the one ingredient for stardom she’d lacked: a cohesive story line.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20178950,00.html

“Occasionally you want to make films that they can take their friends to, [that] they can go to the premiere of, that they celebrate.”

Nicole kidman interviews 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7IHyTXpz8A&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfy10txy520&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU2xdFdo9j4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjzeqU3LdMQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77hX09_DFUM