Naomi Watts Quotes

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

Although I've watched myself making the transition from being a girl to being a woman, I still feel 15 years old. My reflection disagrees.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.

We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.

I'm so immature and still feel so young. Forty doesn't feel any different than 30 did.

But I had a strong reaction to my first three albums and I struggle with them now, as an adult. It's very much the same as looking at your teenage photos in high school.

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

You picture yourself as being 22 always, and so it's very bizarre when you're not.

Growing as a man, I had to go through some stuff first. I had to figure this thing out, find out who I was as a player.

I just feel like all the things that I do in my life just make me feel like a grown-up kid. That's pretty much what I am.

I think you can be mature without being grown-up. You can also be grown-up without being mentally mature. One of them is forced, while the other one is your choice.

“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, “By thinking.”

I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want to be an actor. I just want to be a kid. I barely even know what money is.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.