Quotes By Emma Watson

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 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.

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 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.

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 that's gonna intimidate me!

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 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.

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

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

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'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 want to be normal. I really want anonymity.

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.

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.

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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 really love animals and enjoy working with them.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?