Nicole Kidman has a revealed she has very different career ambitions to fellow Australian Oscar winner Cate Blanchett.

Blanchett, told Britain’s Radio Times earlier this month she is not totally comfortable with being a celebrity and plans to retire from acting.

“My family roll their eyes every time I say it, but I mean it,” the 55-year-old said.

“I am serious about giving up acting. [There are] a lot of things I want to do with my life,” she added.

Kidman, meanwhile, has no plans to stop acting any time soon.

In an interview with HELLO! Magazine published this week, the 57-year-old was asked if retirement is something she has thought about.

“Retire from what? Retire from this journey?” Kidman replied.

“Retire from working as an actor? I always have choices. I may go on a different journey at some point,” she added.

“But I’m never going to be retiring until it’s chosen that, ‘That’s it – you’re done now, Nicole.'”

Speaking ahead of the release of her latest thriller movie, Holland, Kidman said she hopes her “best work yet” is to come.

Kidman said she is “still finding (her) voice” as an actress and producer.

“I’ve had an amazing group of mentors and people who have pushed me,” she said. “But I’m still finding my voice, and I’m hoping that I haven’t done my best work yet.”

Directed by Mimi Cave, Holland follows a teacher Nancy (Kidman) who thought she had the perfect family life, but finds a very different reality when she sets out to find out if her husband (Matthew Mcfayden) is cheating on her.

The collaboration with Cave follows a vow Kidman made to the Sydney Morning Herald in 2017 that “it’s necessary to say that every 18 months I’ll make a movie with a female director” as “that’s the only way statistics will change when other women start to go, ‘Oh, I’m actually going to choose only a woman now.'”

Speaking to HELLO! about how many female-created films she has starred in, the actress said: “… there are more than 19 now.

“But it’s not about the number; it’s about constantly creating more opportunities and more enthusiasm for our stories,” she said.

Kidman has four children – daughter Isabella, 32, and son Connor, 30, with her ex-husband Tom Cruise, as well as daughters Sunday Rose, 16, and Faith, 14, with her country singer husband Keith Urban.

Kidman won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in the 2002 movie The Hours.

She was received Oscar nominations for her roles in the 2002 musical Moulin Rouge!,  2010’s Rabbit Hole,  Lion in 2016 and Being the Ricardos in 2021.

Blanchett most recently starred in the spy thriller Black Bag, and has won two Oscars  – for best supporting actress in The Aviator (2005) and best actress in Blue Jasmine (2013).

In 2019, Blanchett told Julia Roberts during a conversation for Interview magazine that “as you get older, acting just gets more and more humiliating”.

“When I was younger, I would wonder why the older actors I admired kept talking about quitting. Now I realise it’s because they want to maintain a connection to the last shreds of their sanity,” she said.

-with AAP