9 Quotes & Sayings By Naomi Watts

Naomi Watts is an Australian actress. She has received three Academy Award nominations for her role in The Ring, Twelfth Night and The Impossible. Her film roles include Girl, Interrupted, Mulholland Drive, The Ring, 21 Grams, The Painted Veil and Milk. In the television arena, she has appeared in the miniseries Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital and HBO's Carnivàle Read more

Watts is also a humanitarian who supports a number of charities through her work with UNICEF and Oxfam America. She is a passionate advocate for a more sustainable environment and a member of Greenpeace International Board of Directors.

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