Quotes By Emma Watson

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.

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.

I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity.

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 want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

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.

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.

When I haven't been working I've tried to travel a lot.

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

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 love painting and have a need to do it.

I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.

In terms of men I fancy, I think the actor James Franco is gorgeous. But I find it odd to be described as a sex symbol myself.

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.

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!

I think the actresses who are really successful are the ones who are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.

Hermione is so close to who I am as a person that I've never really had to research a role. I'm literally rediscovering what it means to be an actress.

It's 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.

I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don't have to explain anything to them. I don't have to apologize for anything. They know. There's no judgment in any way.

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

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.

Make-up is actually something I've always really loved.

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.

As an actress I take roles I find interesting.

Being an actress, I find myself people-watching and I can be quite shy.

And I always keep cards people send me. I have a whole wall covered with them.

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.