Emma Watson Quotes

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

A woman simply is, but a man must become.

When my divorce came through, it was like being let out of a cage because I hadn't been true to myself before; I was being something that was expected of me.

I know intimately the struggle of trying to live your life and be yourself while feeling the pressure of an entire community on your shoulders.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

America saw me as a projection of me that I always wanted. That's why I love going to America so much. I feel like I started off in America exactly how I wanted to start everywhere.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

I don't want to live up to how people expect me to be.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

Having long suspected that there was something alive in there, running the place, separate from everything else, absolutely individual and independent, we've celebrated by giving it a real name. My self.

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.

When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

Questions about who we are and who we want t be are increasingly prominent in our society. We have left behind Soviet ideology and there will be no return.