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"I'm not good at acting in my real life. I've got to get better at that," she says. "I tend to be very candid and I'm not good at protecting or shielding myself. But I don't know how to do that. I think you reach a point when you reach a certain age when you've had a certain amount of life experiences, where you just go, okay, well, this is the journey. There's happiness and there's great sadness and there's the gamut of emotions. And if you keep waiting to be happy, that's never going to happen. So it's just saying, 'It's life.'"

As for Oscar buzz on her performance in The Hours and the inevitable tabloid teases that she has "finally arrived" as an actress, Kidman is firmly planted on solid ground. "I suppose I just say it's a fleeting moment -- 'cause it is fleeting. You know that, particularly as a female actor. How long will last? Who knows? But it's here and it's now. I've had moments when they've said, 'Now it all begins.' But it never begins ... hopefully it never quite ends."

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