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

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."

Watts: "As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental."

Watts: "That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself."

Watts: "Oh, I'm definitely a wild child."

Watts: "If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will."

Watts: "You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have."

Watts: "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."

Watts: "There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."

Watts: "There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you."

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

Watts: "I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left."

Watts: "I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff."

Watts: "I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends."

Watts: "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."

Watts: "I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, whatever that takes. For me, above all else, it means being around the people I want to be with."

Watts: "There's so much focus on celebrity these days; we're in the Kardashian era, and it's slightly scary."