Naomi Watts Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“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'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.”

“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'!”

“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.”

“That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.”

“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.”

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

“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.”