Naomi Watts

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.

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.

Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.

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

I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

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.

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.

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.

The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.

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