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" 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! "

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Naomi Watts

Doing

You

Work

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.! "

" 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

Work

Way

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

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

Naomi Watts

I Wish

Kids

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

Naomi Watts

Young

Much

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'! "

" 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. "

" 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

Myself

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

Naomi Watts

Anonymous

Dark

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Naomi Watts

Life

My Life

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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

Way

Time

" 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. "