Emma Watson

“I am literally obsessed with Lena Dunham. She's, like, my favorite person in the world. I follow her on Twitter; I read her every day.”

“If anyone else played Hermione, it would actually kill me.”

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

“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.”

“Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.”

“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 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.”

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

“As I've got older, and since I cut all my hair off, I've felt a bit more liberated about trying different things out.”

“I like men with quick wit, good conversation and a great sense of humour. I love banter. I want a man to like me for me - I want him to be authentic.”

“I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.”

“I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.”

“Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.”

“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.”

“I've always been fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor, and I had read that her first kiss happened on a film set, which actually made me a little sad. You need to have normal experiences of your own.”

“I think there's this idea that lipstick is something quite old or something you'd only wear at night.”