Naomi Watts Quotes
Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
Quotes to Explore
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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I am absolutely not saying that Milosevic might not be responsible for all sorts of atrocities, but I believe that what's been left out of public debate and the press is that there was a civil war going on there.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.
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My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
