Naomi Watts Quotes

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

Having lived a full and stimulating life before I had my kids, I've relished every minute I've had to spend with them and felt a degree of confidence in dealing with their trials and tribulations to date.

I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.

The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.

I played a lot of mothers before I even became a mother. It wasn't like I set out to be some sort of mother crusader.

As an actor, I'm not sure what I had to offer the world of tragedy and comedy when I was 21. I hadn't lived a whole lot. By my middle 30s, you know, I had been knocked around a little bit.

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.

High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.

When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth.

There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

I never played the 'decoration,' I always played the one who suffered. And then I got very lucky in my middle career, when I started playing the hero, which at that point was quite rare for women.

I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.

I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.

As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

In my long innings, I have seen many sunrises and many sunsets; many good and bad times.

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.

Anything that opens you up emotionally is going to impact your acting. Parenthood, becoming a mom, certainly does that.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.

As someone who has been both a full-time mom and full-time in work force, I know we all have valuable experiences that shape who we are.

Actually ninety-nine percent of my acting has nothing to do sci-fi or fantasy, I consider it a good part of my acting, and enjoy the roles I play.

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you're dead, so... I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.

It is no small thing that the juiciest and most complicated roles of my life have come post-having two children.