Naomi Watts Quotes
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!
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
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I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I'm trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.
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The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.
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I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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Uchimura is the greatest of all time.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition
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Living in the moment means entrance and exit are simultaneous- the moment is now. Zen saying... works!
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.
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The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
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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!
