Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.

Naomi Watts

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.

Naomi Watts

Yes Way Twisted

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!

Naomi Watts

Years Year Wood

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.

Naomi Watts

Women Time Men

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.

Naomi Watts

Wearing Wear Tons

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

Naomi Watts

Life Experience Art

I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

Naomi Watts

Good Fear Water

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.

Naomi Watts

Romantic Movies You

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

Naomi Watts

Us T More

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.

Naomi Watts

Food Car Art

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.

Naomi Watts

Time Way Up

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.

Naomi Watts

Diet Wit Whatever

I can't see the film industry coming to a grinding halt any time soon. I think we may be more open to negotiations and things like that, but I think the art world tends to thrive in times of recession.

Naomi Watts

Time Art World

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.

Naomi Watts

Art You Wing

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.

Naomi Watts

Life Death Understand

Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment.

Naomi Watts

Time Men Wit

There's so much focus on celebrity these days; we're in the Kardashian era, and it's slightly scary.

Naomi Watts

Car Us T

The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.

Naomi Watts

Movies Worth Violence

Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.

Naomi Watts

Want Things Thing

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.

Naomi Watts

Work Time Men

Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.

Naomi Watts

Women Men Age

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.

Naomi Watts

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

Naomi Watts

I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has a sense of - has a dark side, has a - carries some sort of pain with them. And I find it fun to crack it open and go there.

Naomi Watts

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

Naomi Watts

Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

Naomi Watts

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.

Naomi Watts

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.

Naomi Watts

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.!

Naomi Watts

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.

Naomi Watts

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

Naomi Watts

When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali on the way through.

Naomi Watts

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.

Naomi Watts

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

Naomi Watts

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.

Naomi Watts

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'!

Naomi Watts

Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.

Naomi Watts

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.

Naomi Watts

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

Naomi Watts

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.

Naomi Watts

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

Naomi Watts

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

Naomi Watts

Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.

Naomi Watts

Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.

Naomi Watts

Maybe in the workplace I have more courage than other areas in my life.

Naomi Watts

As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental.

Naomi Watts

There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.

Naomi Watts