Emma Watson Quotes

It makes me sad to hear girls constantly putting themselves down. We have these unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually we're human beings and our bodies have a function. ~ Emma Watson

Originally what I used to love was being on a stage and reacting to a live audience and maybe my calling is more in theatre. ~ Emma Watson

It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's going to find out I'm a total fraud, and that I don't deserve any of what I've achieved.' I can't possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone's expectations of me are. ~ Emma Watson

We need female advocates. I'd love to live in a world where there are as many women in parliament as men. ~ Emma Watson

It's interesting to get older and realize that part of your job growing up in this profession is to help the next generation. More and more, with Boyhood and with Ellar Coltrane and with Emma [Watson], I start to see that role. There's no better way. Nobody wants advice, so you can't really give it. You just have to try to wish them well on their journey. ~ Ethan Hawke

HOW CAN WE EFFECT CHANGE IN THE WORLD WHEN ONLY HALF OF IT IS INVITED OR FEEL WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CONVERSATION? ~ Emma Watson

I love painting and have a need to do it. ~ Emma Watson

It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book. ~ Emma Watson

I had been doing something for more than half of my life that I wanted to continue doing - I really loved making the film and I really love acting and it is what I want to do. ~ Emma Watson

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern. ~ Emma Watson

I don't know. I think there are fans out there who know that too and who wonder whether Ron would have really been able to make her happy. ~ Emma Watson

For the first two movies, I had a huge crush on Tom Felton. He was my first crush. He totally knows. We talked about it - we still laugh about it. We are really good friends now, and that's cool. ~ Emma Watson

I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within. ~ Emma Watson

I'm reading so much and exposing myself to so many new ideas. It almost feels like the chemistry and the structure of my brain is changing so rapidly sometimes. ~ Emma Watson

What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you. ~ Emma Watson

I feel like a voodoo doll. It's grim. It's gross. ~ Emma Watson

He [Kenneth Branagh] is the nicest guy. He is absolutely fantastic. Hes really down to earth, really friendly, and he has a great sense of humor. I really liked working with him. Hes a fantastic actor as well. Theres such a presence about him. ~ Emma Watson

Concentrate on comfort - even if that means wearing the same thing over and over, because when I feel comfortable, I feel so much more relaxed and have a much better time. ~ Emma Watson

As wonderful as charity is, that money runs out. It's not sustainable. It lasts for a certain period of time and it's gone. What i really think people need is the opportunity to help themselves. ~ Emma Watson

I've known Emma Watson since she was 9, we've watched each other grow up, formed this sort of brother/sister bond, and suddenly I'm leaning in to kiss her. Well, it felt completely wrong ... but, you know, you try to sink into the character and divorce yourself from it. We ended up laughing hysterically afterwards. ~ Rupert Grint

The less you reveal, the more people can wonder. ~ Emma Watson

I love Karl Lagerfeld. I worship him. I was brought up in Paris, and my mum used to wear a lot of Chanel. I love the brand. ~ Emma Watson

You foul evil little cockroach! ~ Emma Watson

I try to avoid wearing black because sometimes it's the easy option. But I'm young, so it's nice to be able to play with color and not just wear black all the time. I can save that for when I'm older. ~ Emma Watson

When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be. ~ Emma Watson

I am literally obsessed with Lena Dunham. She's, like, my favorite person in the world. I follow her on Twitter; I read her every day. ~ Emma Watson

Women share this planet 50/ 50 and they are underrepresented
their potential astonishingly untapped. ~ Emma Watson

I'm finally able to tell you ... that I will be playing Belle in Disney's new live-action Beauty and the Beast! It was such a big part of my growing up, it almost feels surreal that I'll get to dance to 'Be Our Guest' and sing 'Something There'. My six year old self is on the ceiling - heart bursting. Time to start some singing lessons. I can't wait for you to see it. ~ Emma Watson

I've had my breath taken away when a fan told me since watching my speech she has stopped herself being beaten up by her father. I've been stunned by the amount of men in my life that have contacted me since my speech to tell me to keep going, and that they want to make sure that their daughters will still be alive to see a world where women have power and equality, economically and politically. ~ Emma Watson

I remember reading this thing that Elizabeth Taylor wrote. She had her first kiss in character. On a movie set. It really struck me. I don't know how or why, but I had this sense that if I wasn't really careful, that could be me: that my first kiss could be in somebody else's clothes. And my experiences could all belong to someone else. ~ Emma Watson

No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality. ~ Emma Watson

I definitly wouldn't want Harry Potter to be the last thing I do. ~ Emma Watson

I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don't have to explain anything to them. I don't have to apologize for anything. They know. There's no judgment in any way. ~ Emma Watson

Obviously, I'm recognized on the street and I am away from home a lot more and, let's face it, I have an action figure of myself! ~ Emma Watson

It's interesting to work with Emma [Watson] so quickly after Harry Potter. When we shot this movie, it wasn't that long after Harry Potter was finished, and it's knowing that's a big transition in her life. She's a very talented young woman. ~ Ethan Hawke

Most people are really nice but some stare, like you're some kind of zoo exhibit and not a real person with real feelings. ~ Emma Watson

I could be 100 years old and in my rocker, but I'll still be very proud that I was part of the 'Harry Potter' films. ~ Emma Watson

Mrs. Greene made me understand the parallels between race and caste
and how women's bodies were used to perpetuate both. Different prisons. Same key. ~ Gloria Steinem

Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love. ~ Emma Watson

I like to think of myself as an actress, I think of going through all of the films as my kind of film academy, the way that I've learnt. ~ Emma Watson

Even worse than seeing women's privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy. ~ Emma Watson

I'm going to continue working as a model. I want to do it all! And I think it's possible to keep working while you go to school. Christy Turlington did it. Natalie Portman did it. Emma Watson just did it! And those are just women in the public eye, but plenty of others do it, too. You know, women around the world are great at multitasking. We do it well. ~ Karlie Kloss

I'm not in the gossips that much, but something I read recently was that me and Emma Watson are having a feud. And I've never even met her. ~ Emma Roberts

I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it. ~ Emma Watson

I've always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library. ~ Emma Watson

It's quite stressful knowing that every time you walk out the door, someone is going to be giving you a very good look up and down, judging everything you wear. ~ Emma Watson

I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic. ~ Emma Watson

Don't let anyone tell you what you can and can't do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be who you want to be. Just encourage and include each other, don't ostracize the gender in front of you. ~ Emma Watson

I really love animals and enjoy working with them. ~ Emma Watson

The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life. ~ Emma Watson

I find the whole concept of being 'sexy' embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot, people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there's the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that's not me. ~ Emma Watson

I'm willing to be seen.
I'm willing to speak up.
I'm willing to keep going.
I'm willing to listen to what others have to say.
I'm willing to go to bed each night at peace with myself.
I'm willing to be my biggest bestest most powerful self. ~ Emma Watson

Our society in general devalues the 'she' - qualities that are associated with the feminine that are found in all of us. As a result there's this imbalance and this distortion and it's hindering our progress. ~ Emma Watson

Feminism is not here to dictate to you. It's not prescriptive, it's not dogmatic. All we are here to do is give you a choice. If you want to run for President, you can. If you don't, that's wonderful, too. I'm lucky I was raised to believe that my opinion at the dinner table was valuable. My mum and I spoke as loudly as my brothers. ~ Emma Watson

If I want to see someone, I want to see them, and if I don't, then I don't. My friends are always telling me I have to play hard to get because I'll pretty much say to a guy, 'I like you - let's go hang out.' But my friends are like, 'You can't do that! You have to string this guy along.' And I'm just like, 'No! I won't! I just want to go on the date!' It's a nightmare - I definitely haven't figured it out yet. ~ Emma Watson

I do things in my own way, but I've never felt any need to rebel, ~ Emma Watson

I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts. ~ Emma Watson

If you believe in equality, you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you. ~ Emma Watson

Make-up is actually something I've always really loved. ~ Emma Watson

As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism. ~ Gloria Steinem

As an actress I take roles I find interesting. ~ Emma Watson

I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out. ~ Emma Watson

I like Valentino a lot - they never use actresses in their campaigns. ~ Emma Watson

I don't have makeup on all the time, but when I want, I have fun with my friends choosing clothes and putting nail polish on. ~ Emma Watson

I would love to not date someone in the same industry as me. Otherwise it becomes what it means to everyone else. ~ Emma Watson

People who are close to me know, they so know that there were days when I was so tired that I would fall asleep anywhere. The onset photographer has pictures of me falling asleep everywhere. Like on chairs, on the floor, in the middle of a set, all curled up. There were times when crew members didn't know where to find me, but they knew I'd be curled up in a ball somewhere. ~ Emma Watson

I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times. ~ Emma Watson

Hermione end up with Ron. As the author told Emma Watson, guest editor for the upcoming edition of the quarterly British lifestyle magazine "Wonderland, ~ Anonymous

I'm very romantic and of course I want to be in love. ~ Emma Watson

I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward. ~ Emma Watson

If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you don't, that's wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, don't shave them, wear flats one day, heels the next. These things are so irrelevant and surface to what it is all really about, and I wish people wouldn't get caught up in that. We want to empower women to do exactly what they want, to be true to themselves, to have the opportunities to develop. ~ Emma Watson

It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are. ~ Emma Watson

It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be biting my head off! ~ Emma Watson

My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions. ~ Emma Watson

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin. ~ Emma Watson

Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't. ~ Gloria Steinem

I try and intellectualize a lot, which she does as well obviously. She's very determined, I am as well. I like to think that I am very loyal in the same way that she is. Bit of a feminist in the same way that she is. I will speak my mind in the same way that she does. ~ Emma Watson

I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult. ~ Emma Watson

We want to empower people to take action and make change and translate their passion into really doing something. ~ Emma Watson

We had fun just messing around and being awkward like they would be awkward. There's always that stage in a friendship when you wonder whether it could be more. ~ Emma Watson

I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed. ~ Emma Watson

I want to be normal. I really want anonymity. ~ Emma Watson

Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be the warrior. ~ Emma Watson

If I've learned anything, it's really just to stop trying to find answers and certainties. ~ Emma Watson

If anyone else played Hermione, it would actually kill me. ~ Emma Watson

There's nothing interesting about looking perfect- you lose the point. You want what you're wearing to say something about you, about who you are. ~ Emma Watson

Yes, I will put it out there - I will work for anyone for free if they're prepared to make their clothing Fair Trade and organic. It's really hard to get people interested in it. ~ Emma Watson

Your library makes our small corner of the world feel big... ~ Belle (Beauty & The Beast)

It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find it alarming that no one questions it. ~ Emma Watson

Umm, there are so many people that I've never had one person that I've particularly idolised or I thought "Wow, I want to be just like them". It used to be when I was younger, Julia Roberts, I used to just love her. There is something so appealing about her. ~ Emma Watson

I don't think Emma Watson needs any advice. She's an incredibly smart young woman who knows what she wants out of life and she has some great parents. ~ Ethan Hawke

If you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing things can and will happen. ~ Emma Watson

I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy. ~ Emma Watson

People say things to me like, 'It's really cool that you don't go out and get drunk all the time and go to clubs.' I appreciate that, but I'm kind of an introverted kind of person just by nature. ~ Emma Watson

For the record, feminism by definition is: 'The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.' ~ Emma Watson

Yeah, it was horrible! I mean really horrible. I felt incredibly awkward. It was not something I was [looking forward to]. I don't know, but it looked good. We somehow managed to make it look realistic. I was proud of myself that I managed to power through and be professional. ~ Emma Watson

I think when I was younger I wasn't really sure if I wanted to act, so I played around with a few different ideas. I wasn't sure whether I might want to write or whether I might want to do something in fashion. ~ Emma Watson

I think the actresses who are really successful are the ones who are comfortable in their own skins and still look human. ~ Emma Watson

The difficulty for me is that I'm interested in so many different things. I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. ~ Emma Watson

Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed. ~ Emma Watson