Naomi Watts Quotes

"You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have."

"I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends."

"I'm not sure why I still think of myself as 28 - maybe that's the point where you start growing up, and then you just feel the same for evermore."

"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."

"Oh, I'm definitely a wild child."

"When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous."

"I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left."

"I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in."

"The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up."

"Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting."

"Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering."

"There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!"

"I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine."

"I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff."

"If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will."

"It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!"

"It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!"

"Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up."

"On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength."

"There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work."

"We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more."

"Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets."

"You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person."

"I know it's silly, but I still think I'm 28."

"As much as my kids keep me young, they also have the reverse effect when I don't have the energy."

"I wish I'd started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more."

"Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ageing and seem to acquire more charisma and beauty with time. Who wouldn't want to be like them? That's the trick - to embrace the natural progression of life and to be confident."

"Whenever I am in Paris, all I want to do is inhale a big plate of cheese. And in New York, my favourite thing is a toasted bagel with cream cheese. Not only do I not avoid carbs, I more or less have them in every meal. When I start denying myself foods, that's when I crave them."

"I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, whatever that takes. For me, above all else, it means being around the people I want to be with."

"There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising."