Emma Watson Quotes

Be yourself, take control of your life.

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

I've come out of myself as a person at Chelsea and expressed myself on and off the pitch.

My advice for young people is to just be yourself. There's no pressure. Do what you want to do. And if you want to do something, then go after it and make it happen.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

Every day, I feel I can do more things - not as a character but as myself.

The big message is, you're the star in your own life. You don't have to change; you are who you are. Go and do what you want to do.

I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

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 know oneself, one should assert oneself.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

Trying to give an individual a voice has always kind of been my mission in my life. As an actor, I've always seen that was something that needed to be done. You need to find that voice inside of you so that you can stand up and be who you really are.

I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

I want my little girl to tell me who she is so I can encourage her and not impose my desires for her on her life. I want her to dream big and to know that if she is willing to earn it, she can have anything - and become anything.

I just want to inspire my fans to be whoever they want to be, because that's what I've always done.

The real story is that I am very free, that I've managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.