“If not me, who? If not now, when?”
— Emma Watson
“Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.”
“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.”
“Believe in yourself and go for it.”
“The less you reveal the more people can wonder.”
“Girls should never be afraid to be smart.”
“Don’t let anyone tell you what you can or cannot do, or cannot achieve. Do. Not. Allow. It.”
“I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.”
“I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.”
“The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.”
“All I can do is follow my instincts, because I’ll never please everyone.”
“Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be the warrior.”
“If I was going to be a princess, I would be a warrior princess.”
“If you believe in equality, you’re a feminist. Sorry to tell you.”
“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.”
“We really damage our own confidence when we put ourselves down, so I try not to.”
“Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That’s it, that simple.”
“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.”
“I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within.”
“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.”
“I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.”
“It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I’m not working on ‘Harry Potter,’ then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.”
“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.”
“Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women’s movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it’s affecting men hasn’t really been addressed.”
“I’m not going to school just for the academics – I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.”
“I really believe that you have to earn things. I don’t feel comfortable unless I have worked really hard.”
“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.”
“For the record, feminism by definition is: ‘The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.’”
“Don’t think I’m going off to find myself though. I already know who I am.”
“There’s nothing interesting about looking perfect.”
“It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you’re not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.”
“Harry Potter’s like Santa Clause: something you can’t see but wish was real so badly that you end up believing in it.”
“Even worse than seeing women’s privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy.”
“Being passionate is not what makes you a girl, it’s what makes you a human.”
“I really love animals and enjoy working with them.”
“It makes me sad to hear girls constantly putting themselves down. We have these unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually we’re human beings and our bodies have a function.”
“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.”
“If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled.”
“The human race is like a bird and it needs both wings to be able to fly. And, at the moment, one of is wings is clipped an we’re never going to be able to fly as high.”
“Ive never understood having crushes on people who you dont know in real life. I only crush on people I meet. I mean, I can appreciate that someone is good-looking, obviously, but I dont intend to fantasize about people I dont know!”
“I really never break the rules. I’m not scared to say what I think or if I really disagree with something then I’ll say it, but I’m not kind of like a born rebel.”
“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.”
“My friends are all really nice about my fame, they’re just curious really, they ask lots of questions.”
“We are tapping into what the world wants: to be a part of change.”
“Our society in general devalues the ‘she’ – qualities that are associated with the feminine that are found in all of us. As a result there’s this imbalance and this distortion and it’s hindering our progress.”
“Men don’t have the benefits of equality either.”
“Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don’t know what she’s going on about half the time!”
“No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.”
“Women have a natural tendency to want to nurture and take care of men. You always think that the guy is going to end up coming around and that you’re going to be the one that saves him – like the Oasis song.”
“I’m a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation.”
“We need female advocates. I’d love to live in a world where there are as many women in parliament as men.”
“Chivalry should be consensual.”
“We had fun just messing around and being awkward like they would be awkward. There’s always that stage in a friendship when you wonder whether it could be more.”
“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’m very romantic and of course I want to be in love.”
“Why has the word become such an uncomfortable one?”
“I find the whole concept of being ‘sexy’ embarrassing and confusing.”
“I can’t wait to be able to drive, but it’s hard. Good driving doesn’t really run in my family genes. My mother is possibly the worst driver ever.”
“If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can’t go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans.”
“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.”
“We don’t often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence.”
“I want to be normal. I really want anonymity.”
“I think women are scared of feeling powerful and strong and brave sometimes.”
“I’m excited about the aging process. I’m more interested in women who aren’t perfect. They’re more compelling.”
“When I haven’t been working I’ve tried to travel a lot.”
“I have to kind of like switch heads. Sometimes I manage it seamlessly, and other times I feel rather all over the place. I feel a bit schizophrenic, like I have a split personality.”
“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 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.”
“Being an actress, I find myself people-watching and I can be quite shy.”
“Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.”
“If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom.”
“I can be 100 years old but I will always be proud to say I was in Harry Potter.”
“If I’m feeling tired, I just say, ‘I’m going to paint my nails purple and put some lipstick on!’”
“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 see wings dancing around me Beleive in your dreams.”
“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 really buy designer stuff. I have a few nice things, but I don’t really have the occasion to wear couture too often.”
“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.”
“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 was working on ‘Harry Potter’ while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.”
“I had been doing something for more than half of my life that I wanted to continue doing – I really loved making the film and I really love acting and it is what I want to do.”
“Yes, I will put it out there – I will work for anyone for free if they’re prepared to make their clothing Fair Trade and organic. It’s really hard to get people interested in it.”
“I would love to persuade Christopher Bailey to get even just a section of Burberry that’s, like, organic or free trade. I love him, he’s a very good person and an amazing designer, and I have a lot of respect and time for him.”
“Dan Radcliffe and Rupert Grint to me are like a pair of warm-hearted brothers.”
“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.”
“While I wouldn’t object to work at a restaurant or a different place that sells decent-or-better food, I think that I can learn much more by becoming a coder.”
“Make-up is actually something I’ve always really loved.”
“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 stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix’s vault on this film. And I’ve taken my wand and I’ve got my cloak.”
“I think it’s so much sexier to be understated. It’s more intriguing to be sexy in a less obvious way.”
“It’s quite stressful knowing that every time you walk out the door, someone is going to be giving you a very good look up and down, judging everything you wear.”
“I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.”
“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.”
“It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be biting my head off!”
“As an actress I take roles I find interesting.”
“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 feel like a voodoo doll. It’s grim. It’s gross.”
“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.”
“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.”
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