Emma Watson Quotes & Sayings

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

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 decided I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word. Apparently I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, anti-men and, unattractive. — 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

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

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

When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of their beloved sports teams, because they didn't want to appear muscle-y, when at 18, my male friends were unable to express their feelings, I decided that I was a feminist. — 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

If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of ... it's sort of like a domino effect. — 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

Jodie Foster did it, Natalie Portman did it. I think it's entirely possible to juggle university with filming ... I actually think going to university will make me a better actress. The experience of living like that, working to deadlines, living with other students. It's all the things I want. There are actresses who don't know about things like doing their own laundry and getting a bus. I'm not going to be like that. For me, this is just the beginning. I've only shown a little bit of what I can do. There is so much more to come. — Emma Watson

For an actor, it is better to play well (or even not so well) in a bad film, than to not play at all. — Emma Watson

We want to end gender inequality, and to do this, we need everyone involved ... We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change and we don't just want to talk about it. We want to try and make sure that it's tangible. — Emma Watson

Men - I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is your issue too. — Emma Watson

I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people just kind of ... own everything. There was a lot of stuff a couple of years ago saying that I was bullied at Brown and awful things like that, none of which were true. — Emma Watson

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

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

I've never really had any barrier to break I guess. I don't really have anything to rebel against. I'm quite lucky. — 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

I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden! — Emma Watson

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

I don't know who this quote is by but the friends that you can call at 3am are the ones that really count and I am lucky that I have a few of those. So, I just drew on that and the people who believe in me as they lift you up. It's really important to have people around you that do that. — Emma Watson

I never wear pigtails, I wear plaits. — Emma Watson

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

I'm excited about the aging process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling — Emma Watson

Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there. — Emma Watson

When I was younger, they used to tease me. And now they're quite protective. — 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

If men don't have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won't feel compelled to be submissive. If men don't have to control, women won't have to be controlled. — Emma Watson

If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans. — Emma Watson

I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything. — 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

We really damage our own confidence when we put ourselves down, so I try not to. — 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

I don't know, I'd love to try some theater. That's my other thing. I'd love to do some Shakespeare. — Emma Watson

Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like, I promise. — Emma Watson

I've never wanted to grow up too fast. I wanted to wear a sports bra until I was 22! ... The allure of being sexy never really held any excitement for me. I've never been in a terrible rush to be seen as a woman. — 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

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

Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn't want to do was get myself into a corset, because I was worried I'd never get out again. — 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

The character is everything that I felt strongly against - she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She's all of these things and I realized that I hated her. How do you play someone you hate? But I found it really interesting, and it gave me a whole new insight into what my job, or my role as an actress, could be. — 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

I don't think my dad really knew what to do with me, as a daughter. He treated me like a boy; my brother and I were treated the same. He didn't do kid stuff. There were no kid's menus; you weren't allowed to order off the kid's menu at dinner - we had to try something from the adult menu. — Emma Watson

I am from Britain and think it is right that as a woman I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decision-making of my country. I think it is right that socially I am afforded the same respect as men. But sadly I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these rights. — Emma Watson

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

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

Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong ... it is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideas. — Emma Watson

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. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything. — 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 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

My best friend Madison keeps a list on her phone of all of the different English slang that I say, so she has kind of like a translator so she can understand without having to ask me, "What on Earth are you talking about when you say 'nackered'?" — 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

I don't consider myself to be a celebrity. I don't fit that mould. — Emma Watson

You foul evil little cockroach! — Emma Watson

As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive. — Emma Watson

I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. — Emma Watson

I get sent Bibles. I have a collection of about 20 in my room. People think I need to be guided. — Emma Watson

We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence. — Emma Watson

And I always keep cards people send me. I have a whole wall covered with them. — Emma Watson

I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way. — 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 already had the sense that I was someone who was more spiritual than specifically religious ... I'm really interested in those things that are more far-reaching than culture, nationality, race, religion. — Emma Watson

In terms of men I fancy, I think the actor James Franco is gorgeous. But I find it odd to be described as a sex symbol myself. — Emma Watson

I don't want other people to decide what I am. I want to decide that for myself. — Emma Watson

I've never understood having crushes on people who you don't know in real life. — Emma Watson

Some days, for some reason, I can't go anywhere, and I'm like, 'That was a mistake,' and other days no one will even notice me. — 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

It's very hard to describe your own style. And I'm young, so I'm still experimenting. But I think it's quite British and very much about individuality. — Emma Watson

If I was going to be a princess, I would be a warrior princess. — Emma Watson

I want to be normal. I really want anonymity. — 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

Harry Potter's like Santa Clause: something you can't see but wish was real so badly that you end up believing in it. — Emma Watson

It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith. — Emma Watson

Harry Potter is not twilight, you know; we're not selling sex. — Emma Watson

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

If not me, who?
If not now, when? — 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

Believe in yourself and go for it — 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

Acting never was about the money for me ... Maybe in 10 years, I'll be able to appreciate the fact that I am financially stable and independent and I don't have to make bad choices. I can be very picky. — 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

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

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

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

Oh my God, no, no chance, no chance. That [kissing her co-stars]s not in my contract! — Emma Watson

My cinematic crush has been pretty much the same since I was 12: Kevin Costner. — Emma Watson

I think women are scared of feeling powerful and strong and brave sometimes. — Emma Watson

I can be 100 years old but I will always be proud to say I was in Harry Potter. — Emma Watson

Being passionate is not what makes you a girl, it's what makes you a human. — 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

It's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn. — Emma Watson

Women have a natural tendency to want to nurture and take care of men. You always think that the guy is going to end up coming around and that you're going to be the one that saves him - like the Oasis song. — Emma Watson

I've always been fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor, and I had read that her first kiss happened on a film set, which actually made me a little sad. You need to have normal experiences of your own. — Emma Watson

Chivalry should be consensual. — Emma Watson

BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS. — Emma Watson

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about. — Emma Watson

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