Emma Watson famous quotes

IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.
-- Emma Watson

#Two #Gender Equality #Gender

I really never break the rules. I'm not scared to say what I think or if I really disagree with something then I'll say it, but I'm not kind of like a born rebel.
-- Emma Watson

#Thinking #Rebel #Scared

It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces.
-- Emma Watson

#Home #Government #Understanding

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

#Rebel #Lucky #Break

Being passionate is not what makes you a girl, it's what makes you a human.
-- Emma Watson

#Girl #Passionate #Humans

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

#Spiritual #Religious #Race

I HAVE REALIZED THAT FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS HAS TOO OFTEN BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH MAN-HATING. IF THERE IS ONE THING I KNOW FOR CERTAIN, IT IS THAT THIS HAS TO STOP.
-- Emma Watson

#Hate #Fighting #Men

While I wouldn't object to work at a restaurant or a different place that sells decent-or-better food, I think that I can learn much more by becoming a coder.
-- Emma Watson

#Thinking #Becoming #Coders

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

#Fun #Awkward #Would Be

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

#Play #Actors #Film

There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.
-- Emma Watson

#Overcoming #Have Faith #Sometimes

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

#Acting #Half #Want

The human race is like a bird and it needs both wings to be able to fly. And, at the moment, one of is wings is clipped an we're never going to be able to fly as high.
-- Emma Watson

#Race #Wings #Bird

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

#Believe #People #Important

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
-- Emma Watson

#Failure #Care #Want

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

#Thinking #Way #Actresses

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

#Friends #Nice #Fame

I'm lucky that I've worked with so many different directors with very different styles and with a lot of different actors.
-- Emma Watson

#Style #Directors #Different

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

#Men #Want #Conversation

I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity.
-- Emma Watson

#Writing #People #Needs

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

#Writing #Play #Want

I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.
-- Emma Watson

#Perfect #Teeth #Body

I just loved performing. It just made me feel alive. It's scary, but that's part of it. I think it's important to have that extra adrenaline. It gives you that extra zing.
-- Emma Watson

#Thinking #Giving #Scary

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

#Children #Light #Singing

I love fashion. I think it's so important, because it's how you show yourself to the world.
-- Emma Watson

#Fashion #Thinking #Important

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

#Song #Men #Thinking

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

#Country #Biting #Months

The reality is that if we do nothing it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work.
-- Emma Watson

#Reality #Men #Equal Pay

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

#Pain #Romantic Love #Ideas

I want to avoid becoming too styled, too ‘done’ and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else. They start out with something individual about them, but it gets lost.
-- Emma Watson

#Careers #People #Done

If not me- who?, If not now- when?
-- Emma Watson

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

#Normal #Want #Anonymity

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

#Share #Planets

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

#Sex #Men #Thinking

I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.
-- Emma Watson

#Taken #Firsts #Vaults

I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.
-- Emma Watson

#Fashion #Cutting #Hair

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

#Jeans #Forever #Pairs

Hermione is so close to who I am as a person that I've never really had to research a role. I'm literally rediscovering what it means to be an actress.
-- Emma Watson

#Mean #Who I Am #Roles

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

#Boys #Men #Trying

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

#Badass #Confusing #Becoming

I keep telling myself that I'm a human being, an imperfect human being who's not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.
-- Emma Watson

#Inspirational #Nice #Who I Am

You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter girl? And what is she doing up on stage at the UN. It's a good question and trust me I have been asking myself the same thing. I don't know if I am qualified to be here. All I know is that I care about this problem. And I want to make it better.
-- Emma Watson

#Girl #Thinking #Feminism

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

#Boyfriend #Sports #Sexy

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

#Rebel #Needs #Way

If I had it my way, I would have just kept it short forever. Of course, men like long hair. There's no two ways about it. The majority of the boys around me were like, 'Why did you do that? That's such an error.' And I was like, 'Well, honestly, I don't really care what you think!' I've never felt so confident as I did with short hair - I felt really good in my own skin.
-- Emma Watson

#Boyfriend #Kissing #Boys

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

#Believe #Insecurity

Believe in yourself and go for it
-- Emma Watson

#Believe #Believe In Yourself #Believe In You

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

#People #Trade #Clothings

The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.
-- Emma Watson

#Girl #Feminist #Guy

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

#Fashion #Life Changing #Perfect

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.
-- Emma Watson

#Being Yourself #Want #Figures

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.
-- Emma Watson

#Taken #Thinking #Ideas

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

#Life #Happy #Stupid

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

#Who I Am #People #Want

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

#Boyfriend #Kissing #Thinking

I feel like young girls are told, I don’t know, that they have to be this kind of princess and fragile. It’s bullshit. I identify much more with being a warrior, a fighter. If I was going to be a princess I’d be a warrior princess definitely.
-- Emma Watson

#Girl #Princess #Warrior

To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against? I've had so much freedom, sometimes it was hard. My parents wanted to protect me, but they had no idea how to. I had to learn as I went and make my own mistakes. 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

#Jobs #Mistake #Ideas

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

#Interesting #Roles #Actresses

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

#Sexy #Hair #Eyebrows

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

#Hermione #Kill Me

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

#Wall #People #Cards

IN MY NERVOUSNESS FOR THIS SPEECH AND MY MOMENTS OF DOUBT, I'VE TOLD MYSELF FIRMLY, 'IF NOT ME, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?'
-- Emma Watson

#Doubt #Speech #Moments

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

#Girl #Princess #Warrior

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

#Men #Feminism #Stereotype

I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.
-- Emma Watson

#Song #Memories #Book

It's difficult on my dating life, because anyone I get photographed with is automatically my boyfriend. So it just makes it look as if I've had, like, 6,000 boyfriends!
-- Emma Watson

#Boyfriend #Kissing #Dating

Men think it's a women's word. But what it means is that you believe in equality, and if you stand for equality, then you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you. You're a feminist. You're a feminist. That's it.
-- Emma Watson

#Inspiring #Sorry #Believe

My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.
-- Emma Watson

#Sexy #Ideas #People

I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.
-- Emma Watson

#Pain #Struggle #Fighting

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

#Strong #Men #Expression

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

#Country #Men #Thinking

We are tapping into what the world wants: to be a part of change.
-- Emma Watson

#World #Want

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

#Sex #Opportunity #Men

All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone.
-- Emma Watson

#Instinct #Please

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

#Beautiful #Feelings #Promise

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

#Men #Order #Submissive

People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating; there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish.
-- Emma Watson

#Two #People #Littles

Chivalry should be consensual.
-- Emma Watson

#Chivalry #Should

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

#Daughter #Father #Taken

Reducing your life down to three pairs of jeans, two skirts, a couple of shirts, and a few pairs of shoes was so nice for me. I really loved living in this tiny room where I didnt have space for anything. It sounds really lame, but it made me feel a lot more free, because I just didnt have as many choices.
-- Emma Watson

#Couple #Nice #Jeans

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

#Boyfriend #Mean #Kissing

L.A. scares the crap out of me. I feel if I have to work out four hours a day, and count the calories of everything I put in my mouth, and have Botox at 22, and obsess about how I look the whole time, I will go mad. I will absolutely lose it.
-- Emma Watson

#Work Out #Mad #Scare

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. Shakespeare said the course of true love never did run smooth, and I had this sense that it had to be painful. It was such a revelation [...] to realize that it shouldn't be that way and that you get to choose who you love and who you decide to give your heart to.
-- Emma Watson

#Running #Pain #Heart

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

#Sorry #Believe #Feminist

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

#Boyfriend #Reading #Character

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

#Perfect #Aging #Excited

Who here actually thinks I would do Fifty Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life... ? ... Good. Well that's that sorted then.
-- Emma Watson

#Boyfriend #Good Life #Real

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

#Boyfriend #Kissing #Feminism

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

#Boyfriend #Jobs #Hate

I really believe that you have to earn things. I don't feel comfortable unless I have worked really hard.
-- Emma Watson

#Believe #Feels

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

#Reading #Media #Empathy

this kiss between hermione and ron is highly anticipated, it's been building up for eight films now. and harry potter is not twilight, you know; we're not selling sex.
-- Emma Watson

#Sex #Twilight #Kissing

I didnt know there were so many ways you could walk down stairs until the day we filmed Hermiones entrance into the Yule Ball Hall,
-- Emma Watson

#Yule #Balls #Way

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

#Sex #Hate #Twilight

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

#Successful #Thinking #Skins

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation.
-- Emma Watson

#Taken #Thinking #Feminist

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

#Girl #Expectations #Feminist

It's important to read because it's really good for your vocabulary. It's really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I find it relaxing.
-- Emma Watson

#Reading #Vocabulary #Imagination

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

#Years #Potters #Proud

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

#Mean #Comfort #Feels