Quotes by Emma Watson

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.

Men—I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is your issue too.

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

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.

It’s almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I’m just going, ‘Any moment, someone’s going to find out I’m a total fraud, and that I don’t deserve any of what I’ve achieved.’ I can’t possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone’s expectations of me are.

If you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing things can and will happen.

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 dont want other people to decide what I am. I want to decide that for myself.

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

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 ideas.

I would love to persuade Christopher Bailey to get even just a section of Burberry thats, like, organic or free trade. I love him, hes a very good person and an amazing designer, and I have a lot of respect and time for him.

I dont want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

Ive probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I dont want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that youre not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.

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 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 didnt have any time to work things out. Its been pretty scary at times.

Im not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.

Its 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.

But its 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 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.