Naomi Watts Quotes

Broadway has been my dream since I was 5 years old.

The only thing I've ever wanted to do in my entire life is to be on Broadway.

Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me.

I feel like I'm 1,000. I don't feel I'm young enough a lot of the time.

I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the program, they said, 'What is your ultimate dream?' and I said, 'Broadway.'

I auditioned for Julliard because I wanted to live in New York, and I wanted to be on Broadway at the time. Julliard seemed like right way to get there.

My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.

Doing Broadway was always a dream of mine since I was a little girl.

I secretly liked acting, but I wanted to play football. It was an enormous dream.

When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.

I wanna do Broadway one day in New York. That would be an ultimate dream of mine.

Broadway has always been a dream of mine.

There are days when I am just dead on the floor, and I'm there in my makeup, and that's getting a little tiring.

I only had one focus and one direction, and I knew where my spirit and heart lived, and it was in singing and dancing and acting, being that. I know a lot of young people dream that, but it's good that it worked out for me because it was all I ever wanted to do.

People don't come to New York out of resignation. They come here with a dream. Mine was to be an actress.

Somewhere deep inside, I knew I had to be an actress.

I really would like to be on Broadway someday.

I've cried multiple times after posting a video. So much work goes into each video that I don't know how I'm still alive.

They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.

If you don't go to Broadway, you're a fool. On Broadway, off Broadway, above Broadway, below Broadway, go! Don't tell me there isn't something wonderful playing. If I'm home in New York at night, I'm either at a Broadway or an Off Broadway show. We're in the theater capital of the world, and if you don't get it, you're an idiot.

They say for every light on Broadway there is a broken heart, an unrealized dream. And that’s the same in any profession. So you have to want it more than anyone else, and you have to be your own champion, be your own superstar, blaze your own path, say yes to opportunity, follow your instincts, be eager, and passionate, keep learning, nurture your real, lasting relationships, don’t be a jerk, and free your imagination so you can become all that you want to be.

I couldn't choose between all of those things! I looooove acting and dancing on Shake It Up, and I am currently in the recording studio working on my music. And one of my dreams is to walk down the runway during fashion week!

I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of black wave.

I'm drawn to a lot of tragedies, and I love a Greek tragedy.But I would think - I start thinking realistically about it, and performing eight days a week, that would take a toll. I take things to heart. I don't know if I could survive, like, "Medea."

People can't believe how hard I work.... I love it. I think it just runs through my veins. My great-grandfather was a bellboy and had a dream to do a hotel chain, so I think I get it from him.