Top 50 Naomi Watts Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Naomi Watts

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

— Naomi Watts

3. “I meditate. I do transcendental meditation and I have been doing that for a long time and that does just clear the mind. I am not religious at all.”

— Naomi Watts

4. “Oh, I’m definitely a wild child.”

— Naomi Watts

5. “I like complicated women. I like women with strength and contradictions...”

— Naomi Watts

6. “I don’t think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by my mother.”

— Naomi Watts

7. “I go to a dance class myself called BBS – Body By Simone – its little mini dance routines and I am often the oldest person in the room although I forget that. I’m fairly fit.”

— Naomi Watts

8. “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

9. “I think film is a director’s medium and the good filmmakers that I like tell the darker stories. Therefore, I’m always inclined to follow people like David Cronenberg.”

— Naomi Watts

10. “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.”

— Naomi Watts

11. “My spirit had been broken a bit over the years by my having to work on films I didn’t love. Hollywood’s a surreal place, and it really is an assault on your spirit.”

— Naomi Watts

12. “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.”

— Naomi Watts

13. “I love being outside with trees and water, lying down somewhere or walking. I do transcendental meditation, which keeps me calm and steady.”

— Naomi Watts

14. “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

15. “If we could just trust the moment that we’re in and live it in the way that you best can embrace it, it would be much better for all of us.”

— Naomi Watts

16. “Liev cares about a lot things. Israel is one of them. We had the good fortune of going there a couple of years ago. To share that experience with him was a great pleasure.”

— Naomi Watts

17. “I was going on years and years of auditions and being told I was too this, too that, not enough of this, not enough of that, to the point where I was so afraid and diluting myself into absolutely nothing.”

— Naomi Watts

18. “We’re all the same, we all think its better somewhere else; its better being older if you’re younger – or its better being younger when we’re older.”

— Naomi Watts

19. “I have a bit of a frustrated dancer in me.”

— Naomi Watts

20. “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.”

— Naomi Watts

21. “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.”

— Naomi Watts

22. “The thing that I love about acting is the fact that I can help people feel things, know themselves or feel less alone. It’s my form of expression, in the same way that someone might paint a picture or sing a song in that you’re hoping that it moves somebody outside of their own way of thinking.”

— Naomi Watts

23. “I always love being in the company of women. It’s all about good conversation and great wine.”

— Naomi Watts

24. “Nicole was always there with her door open, her arms open, her ears open – just what you need.”

— Naomi Watts

25. “I think in my 20s I was just all about having fun.”

— Naomi Watts

26. “I was never completely destitute. I think I borrowed money once off a friend, but I’ve always been quite careful with my money, having come from not much of it.”

— Naomi Watts

27. “Who are we when we leave our families? Who do we become? What are we capable of? That’s something that never leaves us. It begins at that point in your life when you leave the nest, and I don’t think we stop wanting to explore that question.”

— Naomi Watts

28. “I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.”

— Naomi Watts

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

— Naomi Watts

30. “You’re always nervous about how a film lands with an audience.”

— Naomi Watts

31. “In your 20s – and these are generalizations of course – I feel like I didn’t care about as many things or as many people, or even myself, as much. There’s more recklessness and more ruthlessness; you’re not as considerate of how things land with other people I think.”

— Naomi Watts

32. “I don’t know that any woman could ever not think about that at some point – even making the choice not to do it and getting to the place of peace of choosing not to be a parent, there would have still been some struggle in between. I’m not a man but I don’t think it would occupy their minds as much.”

— Naomi Watts

33. “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

34. “I think I have better taste now than I did then.”

— Naomi Watts

35. “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.”

— Naomi Watts

36. “I’m not happy unless I’ve got a little bit of fear going.”

— Naomi Watts

37. “It’ll take me a lot longer to read a script if there’s no director attached.”

— Naomi Watts

38. “I feel like personally I have more drive now than I did then probably because I care more and also because I’ve reached the mid-life point.”

— Naomi Watts

39. “I felt I grew up when I was about 28. I feel pretty much the same. I get reminded when I look in mirrors that I am not. Hopefully, you keep growing and keep planning things as you go along.”

— Naomi Watts

40. “I think whether you’ve got children or not you’re just more aware of others as you get out of your 20s.”

— Naomi Watts

41. “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

42. “What you want, as an actor, is a great leader. I can’t bear it when I work with a director who is wishy-washy and says, “What did you think?””

— Naomi Watts

43. “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.”

— Naomi Watts

44. “It seems like a lot when you have three movies back to back but that’s not really how it is.”

— Naomi Watts

45. “Sometimes you arrive late in the process of filming, which makes it a little scary because they’ve already got this well-established technique going on, and all of the relationships are comfy and cozy. You have to figure out how to fit in, which can always be a scary first day.”

— Naomi Watts

46. “My 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

47. “Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think.”

— Naomi Watts

48. “The use of violence in movies is a subject that’s worth addressing. I’m not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I’m interested in those subjects for sure.”

— Naomi Watts

49. “Noah Baumbach writing is really wonderful. I think the way he plays out each character with a unique voice is really impressive, and rhythmically his dialogue works.”

— Naomi Watts

50. “Sometimes they come to you and it’s a small role, so it’s about the experience and the journey and mixing with people you know you will learn from. Or sometimes it’s a scene in a movie that you think, ‘I just have to play this person.’”

— Naomi Watts