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Naomi... pensiero...

Naomi Watts



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



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



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. 



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. 



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. 



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. 



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! 



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. 



Oh, I'm definitely a wild child. 



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. 



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



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. 



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



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.! 
 


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'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. 



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. 



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. 
 


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



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

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. 



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