Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is an English actress, model, and activist. Born in Paris and brought up in Oxfordshire, Watson attended the Dragon School and trained as an actress at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts. This Emma Watson quotes on education, feminism will motivate you.
Best Emma Watson Quotes
- “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.” – Emma Watson
- “I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.” – Emma Watson
- “It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals.” – Emma Watson
- “A lot of children of this generation have their entire lives made public before they have a say about what they would want. I think it should always be a choice. I love social media, and I love what it can do and how it brings people together but used in the wrong way, it’s incredibly dangerous.” – Emma Watson
- “All I can do is follow my instincts because I’ll never please everyone.” – Emma Watson
- “There’s nothing interesting about looking perfect.” – Emma Watson
- “If not me- who?, If not now- when?” – Emma Watson
- “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.” – Emma Watson
- “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.” – Emma Watson
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“Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like. I promise.” – Emma Watson
- “I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within.” – Emma Watson Quotes
- “I find the whole concept of being ‘SEXY’ embarrassing and confusing. If I do an interview with photographs people desperately want to change me- dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows. Then there’s the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini skirt, BUT THATS NOT ME. I feel uncomfortable. I’d never go out in a mini skirt. Personally, I don’t actually think it’s even that sexy. Whats sexy about saying, ‘I’m here with my boobs out and a short skirt, have a look at everything I’ve got?’ My idea of sexy is that less is more. The LESS you reveal the MORE people can wonder.” – Emma Watson
- “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.” – Emma Watson
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“Believe in yourself and go for it” – Emma Watson
- “I have realized that fighting for women’s rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that this has to stop.” – Emma Watson
- “Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That’s it, that simple.” – Emma Watson
- “I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I’d ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there’s a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.” – Emma Watson
- “If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you don’t, that’s wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, don’t shave them, wear flats one day, heels the next. These things are so irrelevant and surface to what it is all really about, and I wish people wouldn’t get caught up in that. We want to empower women to do exactly what they want, to be true to themselves, to have the opportunities to develop.” – Emma Watson
- “I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.” – Emma Watson
- “It’s important to read because it’s really good for your vocabulary. It’s really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I find it relaxing.” – Emma Watson
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“I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way.” – Emma Watson
- “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.” – Emma Watson
- “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 ideals.” – Emma Watson
- “But 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.” – Emma Watson
- “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.” – Emma Watson
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“Don’t be ashamed if you don’t like what others pretend to love” – Emma Watson
- “People who are close to me know, they so know that there were days when I was so tired that I would fall asleep anywhere. The onset photographer has pictures of me falling asleep everywhere. Like on chairs, on the floor, in the middle of a set, all curled up. There were times when crew members didn’t know where to find me, but they knew I’d be curled up in a ball somewhere.” – Emma Watson
- “Jodie Foster did it, Natalie Portman did it. I think it’s entirely possible to juggle university with filming… I actually think going to university will make me a better actress. The experience of living like that, working to deadlines, living with other students. It’s all the things I want. There are actresses who don’t know about things like doing their own laundry and getting a bus. I’m not going to be like that. For me, this is just the beginning. I’ve only shown a little bit of what I can do. There is so much more to come.” – Emma Watson
- “Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. … Gender equality is your issue, too. … I’ve seen young men suffering from mental illness, unable to ask for help, for fear it would make them less of a men—or less of a man. I’ve seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male success. Men don’t have the benefits of equality, either.” – Emma Watson
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“My friends are all really nice about my fame, they’re just curious really, they ask lots of questions.” – Emma Watson
- “I am from Britain and think it is right that as a woman I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decision-making of my country. I think it is right that socially I am afforded the same respect as men. But sadly I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these rights.” – Emma Watson
- “Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it’s a process. I was completely the eager beaver in school, I was the girl in the front of the class who was the first person to put her hand up, and it’s often not cool to be the person that puts themself out there, and I’ve often gotten teased mercilessly, but I found that ultimately if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in – even if it makes you vulnerable – amazing things can and will happen.” – Emma Watson
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“I really believe that you have to earn things. I don’t feel comfortable unless I have worked really hard.” – Emma Watson
- “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.” – Emma Watson
- “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.” – Emma Watson
- “It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces.” – Emma Watson
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“Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to love.” – Emma Watson
- “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’ve had so much freedom, sometimes it was hard. My parents wanted to protect me, but they had no idea how to. I had to learn as I went and make my own mistakes. I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn’t have any time to work things out. It’s been pretty scary at times.” – Emma Watson
- “There’s nothing interesting about looking perfect—you lose the point. You want what you’re wearing to say something about you, about who you are.” – Emma Watson
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“Girls should never be afraid to be smart” – Emma Watson
- “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.” – Emma Watson
- “People sometimes talk about me as being a brand, having a strategy, and whatever else. I wish. Seriously. I wish I had it together enough to have a strategy. But it’s so instinctual. It usually comes down to two things: the person I’m working with – the director is really important to me – and a line in a script.” – Emma Watson
- “I feel like young girls are told, I don’t know, that they have to be this kind of princess and fragile. It’s bullshit. I identify much more with being a warrior, a fighter. If I was going to be a princess I’d be a warrior princess definitely.” – Emma Watson
- “Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn’t want to do was get myself into a corset because I was worried I’d never get out again.” – Emma Watson
- “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.” – Emma Watson
