Emma Watson Quotes

#1. To be honest, I felt more myself with that haircut. I felt bold, and it felt empowering because it was my choice. It felt sexy too. Maybe it was the bare neck, but for some reason I felt super-, supersexy.

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#2. 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.

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#3. I'm willing to be seen.
I'm willing to speak up.
I'm willing to keep going.
I'm willing to listen to what others have to say.
I'm willing to go to bed each night at peace with myself.
I'm willing to be my biggest bestest most powerful self.

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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#6. I definitly wouldn't want Harry Potter to be the last thing I do.

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#7. 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.

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#8. I think I'm actually in denial that I'm famous, it only sinks in when people crowd in the streets. My friends treat me like a regular person, which is what I wanted.

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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

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#12. I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

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#13. I used to look back at pictures and cringe but actually I'm quite proud that I've had fun with fashion and don't always look perfect. The only regret I have is when I look at something I wore when I was very young and it obviously looks like it belonged to someone else.

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

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#15. My cinematic crush has been pretty much the same since I was 12: Kevin Costner.

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#16. WE WANT TO TRY TO GALVANIZE AS MANY MEN AND BOYS AS POSSIBLE TO BE ADVOCATES FOR CHANGE.

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#17. Don't be ashamed if you don't like what others pretend to love

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

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

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#20. If I'm feeling tired, I just say, 'I'm going to paint my nails purple and put some lipstick on!'

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#21. I don't want other people to decide what I am. I want to decide that for myself.

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#22. No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.

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#23. I don't have makeup on all the time, but when I want, I have fun with my friends choosing clothes and putting nail polish on.

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#24. As wonderful as charity is, that money runs out. It's not sustainable. It lasts for a certain period of time and it's gone. What i really think people need is the opportunity to help themselves.

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#25. 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.

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#26. We want to empower people to take action and make change and translate their passion into really doing something.

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#27. 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.

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#28. 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.

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#29. 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.

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#30. I really love animals and enjoy working with them.

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#31. Don't think I'm going off to find myself though. I already know who I am.

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#32. I think the actresses who are really successful are the ones who are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.

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#33. If you believe in equality, you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you.

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#34. He [Kenneth Branagh] is the nicest guy. He is absolutely fantastic. Hes really down to earth, really friendly, and he has a great sense of humor. I really liked working with him. Hes a fantastic actor as well. Theres such a presence about him.

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

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

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

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#38. 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.

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#39. 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.

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

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#41. 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.

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#42. Why has the word become such an uncomfortable one?

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

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#44. 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.

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#45. 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.

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#46. 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.

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#47. I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.

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

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#49. 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.

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

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

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

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#53. Being an actress, I find myself people-watching and I can be quite shy.

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#54. 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.

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#55. 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.

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

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#57. Most people are really nice but some stare, like you're some kind of zoo exhibit and not a real person with real feelings.

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#58. I really believe that you have to earn things. I don't feel comfortable unless I have worked really hard.

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#59. I love painting and have a need to do it.

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#60. I've got about eight pairs of shoes, and that's it.

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#61. Women share this planet 50/ 50 and they are underrepresented
their potential astonishingly untapped.

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

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#63. 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.

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#64. 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.

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

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#66. There are so many scripts and they are fantastic. I think I would like to do something different, maybe something smaller.

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

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#68. 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.

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#69. 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.

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#70. 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.

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#71. If not me, who?
If not now, when?

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#72. I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way.

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

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#74. 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!

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#75. 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!

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#76. As an actress I take roles I find interesting.

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#77. 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.

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

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#79. 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.

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#80. 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.

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

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

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#83. 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.

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#84. I have to really enjoy the good things because it makes the bad things OK.

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#85. 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.

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#86. 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.

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#87. 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.

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#88. I wasn't one of those girls who always dreamed of being an actress. I went to a normal school and then these film auditioners turned up when I was nine. Then I just fell into this whirlwind.

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#89. 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.

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#90. 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.

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

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#92. 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.

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

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

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#95. 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.

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#96. 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.

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#97. I could be 100 years old and in my rocker, but I'll still be very proud that I was part of the 'Harry Potter' films.

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#98. What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.

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

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#100. 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 I love vintage.

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