Naomi Watts Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

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.

Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.

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

There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

Trivia

Naomi became instant friends with Nicole Kidman when the two of them met on a casting call for a commerical in Australia when they were teenagers.

Her brother, Ben Watts, is a well-known photographer in the United States.

Naomi was not the first person consider for her role in the 2002 film, The Ring. Jennifer Connelly, Kate Beckinsale,and Gwyneth Paltrow all turned down the role.

Naomi accepted her role in the 2003 film 21 Grams before she ever read the script.

Naomi's three favorite actresses are Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster and Julianne Moore.

She has a Yorkshire Terrier named Bob.

Naomi insists she wanted to become an actress after seeing the 1980 movie, Fame.

Naomi's salary for King Kong was reportedly $5,000,000.

She has been nominated for a Saturn Award twice, in 2002 for Mulholland Dr., and again in 2003 for The Ring.

Her father died when she was only 7 years old.