Top 291 Quotes & Sayings by Emma Watson - Page 2

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people just kind of... own everything. There was a lot of stuff a couple of years ago saying that I was bullied at Brown and awful things like that, none of which were true.

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

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

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.

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 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.

I've never understood having crushes on people who you don't know in real life.

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

I genuinely haven't really had a rebellious phase. I think it's just because of the way I was brought up. I think it's because I left home when I was ten years old.

I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.

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.

But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.

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.

I love painting and have a need to do it.

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 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.

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.

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

As I've got older, and since I cut all my hair off, I've felt a bit more liberated about trying different things out.

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.

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

I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or attention. In my family, what you had to do to receive attention was to have good conversation at the dinner table or for me to do well at school, and those were really my focuses because that was what was valued the most.

I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!

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.

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

Harry Potter's like Santa Clause: something you can't see but wish was real so badly that you end up believing in it.

Believe in yourself and go for it

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

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

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

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

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.