129 Quotes by Naomi Watts

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

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    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.

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    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'!

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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