Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is an English actress, model and activist. Profoundly inspirational Emma Watson quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
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Famous Emma Watson Quotes
Make-up is actually something I’ve always really loved. – Emma Watson
I was working on ‘Harry Potter’ while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated. – Emma Watson
If I’ve learned anything, it’s really just to stop trying to find answers and certainties. – Emma Watson
I can be 100 years old, but I will always be proud to say I was in Harry Potter. – 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
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
I don’t really buy designer stuff. I have a few nice things, but I don’t really have the occasion to wear couture too often. – Emma Watson
There’s a Theodore Roosevelt speech about the importance of being in the arena, whether you fail or you succeed, or you make a complete idiot of yourself, as long as you’re doing the best with what you have, using whatever knowledge you have to bring to the table at that moment. And you continue to keep learning. I think my mistakes have made me much stronger. It’s nice to know that things don’t ultimately break you; that you need to go there to know. – Emma Watson
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
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
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
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 didn’t have space for anything. It sounds really lame, but it made me feel a lot more free, because I just didn’t have as many choices. – 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’m a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. – 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
Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to love. – Emma Watson
I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. – Emma Watson
People associate feminism with hate – with man hate – and that’s really negative. I don’t think that’s what feminism is about at all – it’s really positive. I think that’s why women became reluctant to use the word. – Emma Watson
I never wear pigtails, I wear plaits. – Emma Watson
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
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
Women share this planet 50/50 and they are underrepresented, their potential astonishingly untapped. – 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
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
When I started dating, I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful, romantic idea about love. It was almost that you were a victim – that there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be. – Emma Watson
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
Believe in yourself and go for it. – 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
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
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
If anyone else played Hermione, it would actually kill me. – Emma Watson
I do things in my own way, but I’ve never felt any need to rebel. – 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 didn’t see many female politicians on TV. I didn’t see women in history textbooks, so I did geography, and art and English literature. But I know I must have been affected by not seeing women represented. – Emma Watson
No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality. – Emma Watson
I think that it is very important if you know what you want, understand where you are heading towards, and try your best to get it. It is only when we use our hearts to do it, and fall in love with what we are doing, then can we really get real determination. – Emma Watson
I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin. – 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
Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn’t advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn’t wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy. – Emma Watson
I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about. – 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
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
Acting is telling the truth under imaginary circumstances. I cannot think of a worse way to describe acting. Also, I’m the worst liar ever. – Emma Watson
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
If you believe in equality, you’re a feminist. Sorry to tell you. – Emma Watson
I hope my head doesn’t get very big. I’m just going to keep my feet on the ground, stick to friends and family and try to lead a normal life. – Emma Watson
Harry Potter is not twilight, you know; we’re not selling sex. – Emma Watson
Social media, it’s a minefield! Technology is moving so fast right now. Everyone is scrambling around trying to understand what it means to have an avatar, how to live our lives on the internet, what it means for privacy, for citizens of a political universe. I think that we’re trying to find rules now, as we speak, and it’s difficult. But, like everything, the internet is an incredibly powerful force that needs governing – not to restrict our freedom, but to protect people. – Emma Watson
Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That’s it, that simple. – Emma Watson
Girls should never be afraid to be smart – Emma Watson
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
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
I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within. – Emma Watson
I’m not going to school just for the academics – I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning. – Emma Watson
Don’t think I’m going off to find myself though. I already know who I am. – Emma Watson
All I can do is follow my instincts, because I’ll never please everyone. – Emma Watson
I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn’t even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I’d found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged. – 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
I’ve found that if ultimately, 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
Steve Jobs has a great speech where he talks about how the wrong turns in his life truly set him on the path that he needed to be on. Anyway, what do I do? I bake. I’m pretty competitive about my chocolate chip banana bread. I don’t think anyone can believe how good it is. It’s really on another level. – 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 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
Dan Radcliffe and Rupert Grint to me are like a pair of warm-hearted brothers. – Emma Watson
I like Valentino a lot – they never use actresses in their campaigns. – Emma Watson
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
I would love to persuade Christopher Bailey to get even just a section of Burberry that’s, like, organic or free trade. I love him, he’s a very good person and an amazing designer, and I have a lot of respect and time for him. – Emma Watson
With ‘Harry Potter,’ I’ve been all over the world. I probably wouldn’t have gone to New York so young if it weren’t for the films. – Emma Watson
And I always keep cards people send me. I have a whole wall covered with them. – 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
The most embarrassing one is that I had no idea – and please excuse me – that you guys call a condom a rubber. My version of a rubber is an eraser. I’ve done that – very loudly asked for a rubber and people have given me strange looks. That was embarrassing! – 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
If not me- who? If not now- when? – 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
I think women are scared of feeling powerful and strong and brave sometimes. – Emma Watson
I really love animals and enjoy working with them. – Emma Watson
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
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
Being asked to serve as UN Women’s Goodwill Ambassador is truly humbling. The chance to make a real difference is not an opportunity that everyone is given and is one I have no intention of taking lightly. Women’s rights are something so inextricably linked with who I am, so deeply personal and rooted in my life that I can’t imagine an opportunity more exciting. I still have so much to learn, but as I progress, I hope to bring more of my individual knowledge, experience and awareness to this role. – 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
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
Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like. I promise. – Emma Watson
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
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
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
The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy. – 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
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’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
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
