Emma Watson is an English actress, model, and activist. She was born in Paris and brought up in Oxfordshire. As a child artist, she rose to prominence after landing her first professional acting role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series, having acted only in school plays previously. She has also starred in many other films. From 2011 to 2014, she split her time between working on film projects and continuing her education, studying at Brown University and Worcester College, Oxford and graduating from Brown with a bachelor’s degree in English literature in May 2014. Her modeling work has included campaigns for Burberry and Lancôme. As a fashion consultant, she helped create a line of clothing for People Tree. She was honored by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2014, winning for British Artist of the Year. Other than her being a renowned actress, she is also a role model for many. She is a clever, strong individual woman that has inspired millions of women and men worldwide to stand up for gender equality, she was appointed as a UN Women Goodwill ambassador and helped launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe in 2014. May her quotes inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “Girls should never be afraid to be smart.” Emma Watson
2. “Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be the warrior.“ Emma Watson
3. “The less you reveal, the more people can wonder.” Emma Watson
4. “I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything.” Emma Watson
5. “If not me, who? If not now, when?” Emma Watson
6. “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.” Emma Watson
7. “I’m reading so much and exposing myself to so many new ideas. It almost feels like the chemistry and the structure of my brain is changing so rapidly sometimes.” Emma Watson
8. “I’m willing to be seen. I’m willing to speak up. I’m willing to keep going. I’m willing to listen to what others have to say. I’m willing to go to bed each night at peace with myself. I’m willing to be my biggest bestest most powerful self.” Emma Watson
9. “I’ve always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can’t do it any other way.” Emma Watson
10. “If you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing things can and will happen.” Emma Watson
11. “The saddest thing a girl can do is dumb herself down for a guy.” Emma Watson
12. “Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to love.” Emma Watson
13. ” What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.” Emma Watson
14. “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.” Emma Watson
15. “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.” Emma Watson
16. “I don’t want other people to decide what I am. I want to decide that for myself.” Emma Watson
17. “I’m excited about the ageing process. I’m more interested in women who aren’t perfect. They’re more compelling.” Emma Watson
18. “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.” Emma Watson
19. “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.” Emma Watson
20. “It’s not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it. Sometimes you’ve got to blast through and have faith.” Emma Watson
21. “I’m a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love – and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.” Emma Watson
22. “I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within.” Emma Watson
23. “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.” Emma Watson
24. “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.” Emma Watson
25. “We want to empower people to take action and make change and translate their passion into really doing something.” Emma Watson
26. “All I can do is follow my instincts, because I’ll never please everyone.” Emma Watson
27. “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.” Emma Watson
28. “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.” Emma Watson
29. “If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by what we are, we can all be freer.” Emma Watson
30. “Follow your dreams.” Emma Watson
31. “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.” Emma Watson
32. “Men – I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is your issue too.” Emma Watson
33. “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.” Emma Watson
34. “We want to empower women to do exactly what they want, to be true to themselves, to have the opportunities to develop.” Emma Watson
35. “I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.” Emma Watson
