Emma Watson Quotes

One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself. and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

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

I've been able to define who I am and my brother is able to do his thing.

I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

Don't let others define you. You define yourself.

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 try to stay real with my thoughts and the things that I go through in life. I like being free.

I feel like I've been known for having long black hair, so when I took all my extensions out and cut my own hair, it was the most freeing thing, I think, I've ever done. That was my 21st year: I cut my hair, I was doing Broadway; I was living in New York, and I was really having a moment of becoming my individual self, and it was amazing.

I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daughter, is freedom. That is my mission. A sense of liberty, the liberty that comes not only from self-awareness but also from letting go of many things. Many things that weigh us down.

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

I define myself.

It's nice to finally be my own person.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

I think there's always a conflict within me about being comfortable and secure and then being an individual and fighting for what I want to be on an individual basis.

For a long time, I consciously tried to be a good person for others. Not anymore. Caring about other people keeps me in line, but I've decided to just be myself.

As a southern woman, we often define ourselves by who we are with. But I wanted my life to be built differently.

We can be anybody we wanna be.

Sometimes identity can be your salvation. It can be liberating to find your place in the world, but at some point, identity can hold you back.