Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson, on born 15 April 1990 is a British actress, model, and activist. She trained as an actress at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts.
Following are the motivational and inspiring Emma Watson Quotes about feminism, being strong, women, life, success etc. with images.
46 Emma Watson Quotes
“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.”
“As much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.”
“I remember reading this thing that Elizabeth Taylor wrote. She had her first kiss in character. On a movie set. It really struck me. I don’t know how or why, but I had this sense that if I wasn’t really careful, that could be me: that my first kiss could be in somebody else’s clothes. And my experiences could all belong to someone else.”
“I keep telling myself that I’m a human being who’s not made to look like a doll. ”
“I feel like young girls are told that they have to be a 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.”
“Oh, I think Rupert’s gorgeous. He is, he’s totally gorgeous! Very handsome, very handsome indeed.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.”
“I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn’t even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I’d found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged.”
“If I want to see someone, I want to see them, and if I don’t, then I don’t. My friends are always telling me I have to play hard to get because I’ll pretty much say to a guy, ‘I like you — let’s go hang out.’ But my friends are like, ‘You can’t do that! You have to string this guy along.’ And I’m just like, ‘No! I won’t! I just want to go on the date!’ It’s a nightmare — I definitely haven’t figured it out yet.”
“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.”
“All I can do is follow my instincts because I’ll never please everyone.”
“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 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 truly, truly believe that beauty comes from within.”
“Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to love.”
“For the first two movies, I had a huge crush on Tom Felton. He was my first crush. He totally knows. We talked about it – we still laugh about it. We are really good friends now, and that’s cool.”
“You can’t go to the pharmacy without someone saying, “Hey, you’re the girl from Harry Potter!” and I’m like “Yeah! Just buying tampons, see you in a bit!’”
“Who here actually thinks I would do Fifty Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life… ? … Good. Well that’s that sorted then.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“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 male friends were unable to express their feelings, I decided that I was a feminist.”
“Girls should never be afraid to be smart.”
“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 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.”
“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, instead of two sets of opposing ideals.”
“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.”
“I’m excited about the aging process. I’m more interested in women who aren’t perfect. They’re more compelling.”
“We [women] have unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually we’re human beings and our bodies have a function.”
“Beauty is not long hair, skinny legs, tanned skin or perfect teeth. Believe me. 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 paranoia, 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.”
“I’ve always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can’t do it any other way.”
“I think it is right I am paid the same as my male counterparts.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I am literally obsessed with [Girls creator and star] Lena Dunham. She’s, like, my favorite person in the world. I follow her on Twitter; I read her every day. And, yes, Girls is an example of something so refreshing because it feels real.”
“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!”
“Funnily enough, In the first Harry Potter film, you can see me mouthing Harry and Ron’s lines as well because that’s just how I was. I was crazy.”
“It’s not the word [feminism] that it’s important. It’s the idea and ambition behind it.”
“It’s difficult on my dating life, because anyone I get photographed with is automatically my boyfriend. So it just makes it look as if I’ve had, like, 6,000 boyfriends!”
“Don’t let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be who you want to be. Just encourage and include each other, don’t ostracize the gender in front of you.”
“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.”
“The saddest thing a girl can do is dumb herself down for a guy.”
“After I gave my speech there was a website threatening to release naked pictures of me. I knew it was a hoax, but I think a lot of people that were close to me knew gender equality was an issue but didn’t think it was that urgent, that it was a thing of the past. I was raging, it made me so angry, I was like, this is why I have to be doing this. If anything, if they were trying to put me off it, it did the opposite.”
