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" 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

Men

Struggle

Family

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Naomi Watts

Work

Way

" 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. "

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Myself

" 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. "

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Naomi Watts

Life

My Life

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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'! "

" 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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Way

Time

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