Quotes by Emma Watson

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

Women share this planet fifty-fifty and they are underrepresented, their potential astonishingly untapped.

Women and girls have always faced hurdles. But that's never stopped us. We've sacrificed, fought, campaigned, succeeded, been knocked back, and succeeded again. In a race for justice, we've leapt over countless obstacles to win our rights.

Believe in yourself and go for it.

The less you reveal, the more people can wonder.

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.

I love having the door opened for me. Isn't that just polite? But the key is, would you then mind if I opened the door for you? The key is, chivalry should be consensual. Both parties should be feeling good about that.

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.

I can't wait to be able to drive, but it's hard. Good driving doesn't really run in my family genes. My mother is possibly the worst driver ever.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Because l'm worth ir!

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.

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.

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It's about freedom.

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.

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.

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.

Oh my God, no, no chance, no chance. That kissing her co-starss not in my contract!

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.

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.

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.

I just love music generally. If you come to my house I always have music playing.

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!

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

I love people like Renée Zellweger who aren't afraid to look unattractive and really put themselves into a character role and to really be an actress instead of just thinking Am I on-screen pouting and looking beautiful? because that's not really what it's about.

I find it easier to cry than I do to laugh convincingly. It's incredibly hard to pull off a laugh that feels natural take after take after take, that feels real. You can tell a fake laugh the minute you hear it, and that's something I really struggle with more than producing tears.

If I were in the director's chair, I would cast Geena Davis in something awesome every six months if I had the choice.

I have to kind of like switch heads. Sometimes I manage it seamlessly, and other times I feel rather all over the place. I feel a bit schizophrenic, like I have a split personality.

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.

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

Books are a friend, books are an escape, books are a means to empowerment and books are a means to understanding yourself better and in a world around you. They are everything.

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.

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.

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.

All the baggage that comes with fame, being an actress. The down side to it is the intrusion into your life and this expectation that because they've seen you onscreen, they kind of have a right to you as a human being and personally and in your life.

I think that why the research and the data are so important is because you become so used to seeing the world one way that you don't even notice anymore. Gender inequality has this invisibility.

It's funny when I look at my life; my primary school was two-thirds male to one-third female. So I started my life that way. I have two brothers. And when I did Harry Potter, the ratio was more often than not, at the very least, one-third female, two-thirds male.

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.

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

I think it's so much sexier to be understated. It's more intriguing to be sexy in a less obvious way.

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

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.'

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

There's nothing interesting about looking perfect.

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

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 she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.

I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.

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.

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.

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.

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

Who here actually thinks I would do 50 Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life.

Oh, I think Rupert's gorgeous. He is, he's totally gorgeous! Very handsome, very handsome indeed.

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!

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.

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.

He is a good kisser. I can definitely vouch for that.

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.

I didn't realize that I wasn't moving in a gender-equal world -- I had a sense of it, but I didn't start to really see evidence of it, I think, until I hit puberty. Media even before that age is already creating all these biases.

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.

I'm a real Londoner. We have very grey weather in London, and I think it encourages a very eclectic and crazy fashion sense. I mix high-street stuff with more high-end fashion and vintage.

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

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

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.

If not me, who?
If not now, when?

Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That's it, that simple.

We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change.

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.

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

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.

I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.

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.

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

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

As an actress I take roles I find interesting.

Now, honestly, every movie set that I go on, I walk onto set with the confidence that there is nothing that they can throw at me that's gonna surprise me.

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.

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

When I haven't been working I've tried to travel a lot.

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

My grandma said -- when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio -- why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

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.

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.

Let's be honest, I have enough money to never have to work again.

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.

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!

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

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.

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.

I think there's this idea that lipstick is something quite old or something you'd only wear at night.

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.

Dan Radcliffe and Rupert Grint to me are like a pair of warm-hearted brothers.

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.

I love painting and have a need to do it.

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

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.

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.

I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way.

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

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

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

I'm a very heady person; I'm in my head a lot.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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