Self

• "I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself."
• "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’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."
• "I was very well-educated. My dad paid for me to go to a good school but um, you know, when my parents divorced, we didn't have any money for quite a while. My birthday presents was my school uniform and pencil cases. And I think that's one of the reasons why my education means so much to me, because my dad really couldn't afford to send me to the school he sent me do. He just didn't have the money. So I've worked hard every single day I was at that school to make him proud of me and for him to know I appreciated it. And I do. And I still do."
• "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."
• "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."
• On the differences between American and British slang: “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!”
• @EmWatson: Look. I just want to know exactly what the next ten years of my life is going to look like ok? And to have it organised on a colour coordinated calendar. Is that really too much to ask?
• "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."
• ❝People think they know me because for years I have seen the movies and read about me in the papers. They like the feeling that we grew up together. But I have a personal dimension that no one knows.❞
• "Having to figure out how to function in the real world has been a challenge. I know how to use a washing machine."
• "Your smile can be the biggest sarcasm or irony that just because you may have a smile for everyone think it’s okay with you."
• "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. "
• "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."
• "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."
• "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."
• “I guess, weirdly in my head, I knew what I wanted. I didn’t know how it would, or if it would, ever happen. But before “The Bling Ring” I said I’d really wanted to meet Sofia Coppola and - this is before I knew that she had a film in mind - ended up meeting her. And Darren was someone who actually I met a good year ago. And then I’m doing a film with Guillermo del Toro next summer, and I went to him and said Warner Brothers have given me the script for ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ but the only way I’d really want to do it is if you did it. And then miraculously he said, ‘Oh, funnily enough 'Beauty and the Beast’ is my favorite fairy tale, I can’t let anyone else do this, I’ll start putting a team together.”
• "Don’t let anyone tell you what you can or cannot do, or cannot achieve.Just don’t allow it. It’s wrong. It’s so wrong. Be what you want to be – and prove them wrong."
• “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.”
• "I love fashion as a thing. And I very much still follow it and find it interesting and when I come across something really great I get excited and I’m inspired. But there was a moment when I took a step away from fashion."
• “When you make a movie on location, where you have to go and live somewhere outside your comfort zone, you have to create your own family, and you get so much closer than when you’re making a movie somewhere where everyone can stay in their own homes. And you’re all trying to create something, and through that creative process you make this bond that you wouldn’t really have under any other circumstances.”
• “I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I’ve done press with every syndication, every country; I’ve done interviews with people dressed up as cows - there’s honestly nothing thats gonna intimidate me.”
• "I’m not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning."
• [on being a known actress]: "Most people are really nice but some stare, like you’re some kind of zoo exhibit and not a real person with real feelings. Even when you take away all the glamour and attention and premieres and everything, it still comes down to the fact that I’m acting."
• "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."
• “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.”

Self-Love

• "I keep telling myself that I'm a 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. It makes me sat to hear girls constantly putting themselves down. We have this unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually we're human beings and our bodies have a function." - Emma Watson
• "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."
• "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."
• "It sounds like a cliché 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."
• "There’s a whole new definition to celebrity now. I think that’s why you see a lot of actors blanching at being associated with that word ‘celebrity,’ because it’s become something that isn’t really associated with having a craft."
• “Beauty is not long hair, skinny legs, tanned skin or perfect teeth. Beauty is the face of who cried and now smiles, beauty is the scar on your knee since you fell when you were a kid, beauty is the circles when love doesn’t let you sleep, beauty is the expression on the face when the alarm rings in the morning, it’s the melted makeup when you have a shower, it’s the laughter when you make a joke you’re the only one who can understand, beauty is meeting his gaze and stopping understanding, beauty is your gaze when you see him, it’s when you cry for all you paranoias, beauty is the lines marked by time. Beauty is what we feel in the inside which also shows outside us. Beauty is the marks the life leaves on us, all the kicks and the caresses the memories leave us. Beauty is letting yourself live.”
• “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.”
• “Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like. I promise.”

Feminism

• "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."
• "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."
• “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 males friends were unable to express their feelings, I decided that I was a feminist.” - Emma Watson (from UN Speech on Gender & Equality)
• “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.”
• “I think it is right I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decisions that affect my life. I think it is right that socially, I am afforded the same respect as men.”
• "Fame is not something I have always felt comfortable with; I have really grappled with it emotionally. And, in a funny way, doing this is my way of making sense of the fame, of using it. I have found a way to channel it towards something else, which makes it so much more manageable for me. And this is something I really believe in." [Talking about feminism]