Latest Emma Watson Quotes from Interviews

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• Whether you are a woman on a tea plantation in Kenya, or a stockbroker on Wall Street, or a Hollywood actress, no one is being paid equally.

  Emma Watson

  Wall, Tea

  Esquire Interview, April 3, 2016.

• When people call me a role model it puts the fear of god into me, because I feel like I'm destined to fail.

  Emma Watson

  People, Role Models, Failing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Steve Jobs has a great speech where he talks about how the wrong turns in his life truly set him on the path that he needed to be on. Anyway, what do I do? I bake. I'm pretty competitive about my chocolate chip banana bread. I don't think anyone can believe how good it is. It's really on another level.

  Emma Watson

  Believe, Thinking, Chocolate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• We need to make sure that we are using technology, and technology is not using us.

  Emma Watson

  Technology

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think our fears find us and force us to confront them over and over again.

  Emma Watson

  Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Social media, it's a minefield! Technology is moving so fast right now. Everyone is scrambling around trying to understand what it means to have an avatar, how to live our lives on the internet, what it means for privacy, for citizens of a political universe. I think that we're trying to find rules now, as we speak, and it's difficult. But, like everything, the internet is an incredibly powerful force that needs governing - not to restrict our freedom, but to protect people.

  Emma Watson

  Powerful, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm aware that I'm kind of a paradox, and at times a bit ill-suited to my profession. But there's something that brings me back. There's something in me that feels like I have to do this, that this is what I'm meant to be doing. If I didn't feel this way, I wouldn't do it. But it's full of contradictions, for sure.

  Emma Watson

  Kind, Paradox, Contradiction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  People, Wish, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Whenever I've gone against my instincts, it's been a bit of a disaster. If there's a script I'm considering, I will get everyone to read it. I will get my mom to read it, I will get my friends to read it, I'll get the person doing my manicure to read it. I'm someone who really needs to talk things through. And then, obviously, I have a wonderful manager and agents, and I listen very carefully to what they have to say as well.

  Emma Watson

  Mom, Wonderful, Instinct

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Acting is telling the truth under imaginary circumstances. I cannot think of a worse way to describe acting. Also, I'm the worst liar ever.

  Emma Watson

  Liars, Thinking, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The story of my life has been of public interest, which is why I've been so passionate about having a private identity. When I step into a character, people have to be able to suspend their disbelief; they have to be able to divorce me from Hermiona. And not having everyone know every single intimate detail of my entire life is part of me trying to protect my ability to do my job well.

  Emma Watson

  Character, Divorce, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There's a Theodore Roosevelt speech about the importance of being in the arena, whether you fail or you succeed, or you make a complete idiot of yourself, as long as you're doing the best with what you have, using whatever knowledge you have to bring to the table at that moment. And you continue to keep learning. I think my mistakes have made me much stronger. It's nice to know that things don't ultimately break you; that you need to go there to know.

  Emma Watson

  Mistake, Nice, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Photographers want to reinvent you, to take you somewhere else, to show you in a completely different way. They look at your previous work, and try to figure out what they can do to show a new side of you.

  Emma Watson

  Trying, Different, Photographer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• What I find difficult about photo shoots is the line between playing a character - you're being asked by the photographer to take on a role like you would in a movie - and being a fancier version of yourself. It's about finding that line between being spontaneous and open to direction, but also trying to explain to photographers that the "me" is often taken out of context because it has all of this other stuff attached to it.

  Emma Watson

  Taken, Character, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I find it easier to cry than I do to laugh convincingly. It's incredibly hard to pull off a laugh that feels natural take after take after take, that feels real. You can tell a fake laugh the minute you hear it, and that's something I really struggle with more than producing tears.

  Emma Watson

  Real, Struggle, Laughing

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

• All the baggage that comes with fame, being an actress. The down side to it is the intrusion into your life and this expectation that because they've seen you onscreen, they kind of have a right to you as a human being and personally and in your life.

  Emma Watson

  Expectations, Baggage, Sides

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

• In the film industry you work very long hours, and making a film is a very intense process.

  Emma Watson

  Long, Film, Intense

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

• How as an actress are you meant to inhabit other people if you haven't lived? How are you meant to play someone who gets the bus to work or has a part-time job or whatever if I've never experienced any of it myself or if I haven't been to school? How does that make me someone that people can relate to? I don't think it's possible really.

  Emma Watson

  Jobs, School, Thinking

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

• I hope that having my life and having an education will lengthen my career.

  Emma Watson

  Careers

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

• If I were in the director's chair, I would cast [Geena Davis] in something awesome every six months if I had the choice.

  Emma Watson

  Choices, Directors, Six Months

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm going to be the most competitive birth-giver ever.

  Emma Watson

  Birth, Giver

  Interview with Geena Davis, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• I didn't see many female politicians on TV. I didn't see women in history textbooks, so I did geography, and art and English literature. But I know I must have been affected by not seeing women represented.

  Emma Watson

  Art, Female, Textbooks

  Interview with Geena Davis, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• I've had so many moments where seeing other women be fully and truly and authentically themselves, and express that, has given me permission. Once you see it happening, you're like, "Oh, I have permission to do that, too."

  Emma Watson

  Moments, Permission, Given

  Interview with Geena Davis, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

• Hindsight is obviously a very great thing, but I'm always convinced that the reason that I didn't take as many politics or history classes is because I just didn't see any women. I didn't think when I was 13, 14 that that had anything to do with me. I just didn't see women in my textbooks.

  Emma Watson

  Thinking, Class, Textbooks

  Interview with Geena Davis, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.