Naomi Watts Quotes

It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

Supposedly I haven't changed.

I've grown up with kids watching me and as they're growing up, I'm growing up.

Along with age comes more confidence, so it kind of works out.

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'

I was looking in the mirror the other day and I realized I haven't changed much since I was in my twenties. The only difference is I look a whole lot older now.

When I look at interviews from when I was that age, I come off different than how I am because I've matured - and I've matured, become a man in front of the public eye.

I've looked in the mirror every day for 20 years. It's the same face.

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

I have seen ups and downs. I am 10 films old. People say I have changed. But, I don't sense any change in myself. If I had to change, I would have changed in my second or third film.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

It's a beautiful thing at 60 to know who you are.

I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.

I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

You have to know how to evolve with age without trying to hang on to your younger image of yourself from the past.

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.