I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. Emma Watson More Quotes by Emma Watson More Quotes From Emma Watson We need to make sure that we are using technology, and technology is not using us. Emma Watson technology Whether you are a woman on a tea plantation in Kenya, or a stockbroker on Wall Street, or a Hollywood actress, no one is being paid equally. Emma Watson walltea What I find difficult about photo shoots is the line between playing a character - you're being asked by the photographer to take on a role like you would in a movie - and being a fancier version of yourself. It's about finding that line between being spontaneous and open to direction, but also trying to explain to photographers that the "me" is often taken out of context because it has all of this other stuff attached to it. Emma Watson takentryingcharacter Photographers want to reinvent you, to take you somewhere else, to show you in a completely different way. They look at your previous work, and try to figure out what they can do to show a new side of you. Emma Watson differentphotographertrying I find it easier to cry than I do to laugh convincingly. It's incredibly hard to pull off a laugh that feels natural take after take after take, that feels real. You can tell a fake laugh the minute you hear it, and that's something I really struggle with more than producing tears. Emma Watson realstrugglelaughing How as an actress are you meant to inhabit other people if you haven't lived? How are you meant to play someone who gets the bus to work or has a part-time job or whatever if I've never experienced any of it myself or if I haven't been to school? How does that make me someone that people can relate to? I don't think it's possible really. Emma Watson jobsschoolthinking In the film industry you work very long hours, and making a film is a very intense process. Emma Watson intensefilmlong All the baggage that comes with fame, being an actress. The down side to it is the intrusion into your life and this expectation that because they've seen you onscreen, they kind of have a right to you as a human being and personally and in your life. Emma Watson baggageexpectationssides Hindsight is obviously a very great thing, but I'm always convinced that the reason that I didn't take as many politics or history classes is because I just didn't see any women. I didn't think when I was 13, 14 that that had anything to do with me. I just didn't see women in my textbooks. Emma Watson textbooksclassthinking I'm going to be the most competitive birth-giver ever. Emma Watson giverbirth I didn't realize that I wasn't moving in a gender-equal world - I had a sense of it, but I didn't start to really see evidence of it, I think, until I hit puberty. Media even before that age is already creating all these biases. Emma Watson mediamovingthinking I've had so many moments where seeing other women be fully and truly and authentically themselves, and express that, has given me permission. Once you see it happening, you're like, "Oh, I have permission to do that, too." Emma Watson givenmomentspermission If I were in the director's chair, I would cast [Geena Davis] in something awesome every six months if I had the choice. Emma Watson six-monthschoicesdirectors I think that why the research and the data are so important is because you become so used to seeing the world one way that you don't even notice anymore. [Gender inequality] has this invisibility. Emma Watson dataimportantthinking It's funny when I look at my life; my primary school was two-thirds male to one-third female. So I started my life that way. I have two brothers. And when I did Harry Potter, the ratio was more often than not, at the very least, one-third female, two-thirds male. Emma Watson brothertwoschool I looked at [Geena Davis] research and see things like 21 percent of filmmakers are women, only 31 percent of speaking roles in popular films are female - you start seeing it everywhere. It's so much bigger. So you've uncovered this groundbreaking data and research. Emma Watson datafemaleroles I just love music generally. If you come to my house I always have music playing. Emma Watson music-loveifshouse Originally what I used to love was being on a stage and reacting to a live audience and maybe my calling is more in theatre. Emma Watson theatreusedcalling I love people like Renée Zellweger who aren't afraid to look unattractive and really put themselves into a character role and to really be an actress instead of just thinking "Am I on-screen pouting and looking beautiful?" because that's not really what it's about. Emma Watson beautifulcharacterthinking I definitly wouldn't want Harry Potter to be the last thing I do. Emma Watson potterslastswant
