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| • | "She took up smoking [during the period between 'Tank Girl' and 'Mulholland Drive'], because Los Angeles can be a lonely town, so lonely that you might take up smoking just so you can ask someone to light your cigarette.", Esquire, Apr. '03, p. 81 |
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| • | "Naomi smokes up a storm in Europe. Australian actress Naomi Watts loves filming in Europe, because she can smoke in bars and restaurants without being told off. The puffing actress admits she feels like an outcast when she lights up in Hollywood or New York because of the cities' strict anti-smoking rules. But there are no such problems in Europe -- unless there's a snooty American nearby. She explains, 'When I filmed 'Le Divorce' in Paris, you could smoke anywhere you wanted. When I went back to do reshoots, I was in this restaurant with crammed tables and I lit up. It was so liberating. Then I heard this American voice next to me going, 'Could you please put that out?' I simply turned round and said, 'But we're in France and you can smoke here. I'll open a window but I do feel quite liberated to smoke right now, I'm sorry'" , San Francisco Chronicle, Jul. 31, '03
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| • | "Placed demurely next to her are the kind of cigarettes they sell in certain health food stores ... Watts, perhaps sensing she's betraying the Aussie reflex against speaking profundities, asks for the okay to light one of her detoxified cigarettes ... her next declaration feels autobiographical as it comes out with the first stream of smoke.", Premiere Magazine, Jul./Aug. '03
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| • | "But if she broods with the best of them onscreen, Watts in person, comes across as a petite, cheerful sprite. Dressed in Prada sandals, silk Chloe skirt and black T-shirt, Watts dashes around the coffee table of her Los Angeles hotel suite to grab a bottle of water and a handful of Pringles before explaining her take on the film's director, famed art house auteur James Ivory. 'We might sit here and grab these chips and toss cigarette ashes in the cup of coffee, whereas James would sit with his hands on his lap and be very attentive'", San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 3, '03
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| • | "The politically incorrect masses salute Naomi Watts, the Kent-born actress who doesn't mind admitting to a liking for cigarettes. Enjoying a coffee in Paris after a work stint in the smoke-free zones of New York and Los Angeles, she'd just lit up a cancer stick when a pushy Yank demanded she extinguish it. Demonstrating her Aussie upbringing, Watts turned to the loudmouth and gave him a rather direct summary of her rights and desires - and instructions on where he could shove his request", Daily Star (UK), Aug. 4, '03 |
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| • | "I was in a restaurant in Paris and the person at the next table says to me, 'Do you mind not smoking? I just got my meal'. And part of me was feeling bad right away and then I was like, 'Yes I do mind. We're in France'. ... I'm a social smoker and I hardly ever buy cigarettes, except when I'm in situations like this interview, or then I have to fidget. I'm not saying I'm absolved of being addicted to smoking, but I've never smoked more than five a day. On [21 Grams (2003)] every single person on that set smoked, and they smoked hard-core, two packs a day. And I ended up smoking and then I realized, I'm actually enjoying this. My friend told me about this hypnotherapy to quit smoking. But it's a bit creepy, isn't it, this messing with the mind?", Allure Magazine, Aug. '03, p. 170 |
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| • | was smoking in the parking garage after the 2003 Gotham Awards, netizen sighting, Sep. '03 |
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| • | "Watts was one of about 10 guests at a private birthday dinner for Jack Nicholson, who celebrated his 67th birthday at New York restaurant Da Silvano. Watts and Catherine Keener sat down just in time for a giant cake and a birthday serenade, according to the New York Post. After smoking outside with Candace Bushnell, the group moved to the Mercer Hotel", New York Post, Page Six gossip column, Apr. 23, '04 |
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| • | "She says she has the occasional cigarette when she's feeling peckish, but it's not a strong habit and she can easily stop for weeks at a time", Teesside Evening Gazette (UK), May 8, '04
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