Emma Watson

I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated. ”

As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive. ”

I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning. ”

I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult. ”

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about. ”

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 want to avoid becoming too styled, too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else. They start out with something individual about them, but it gets lost. ”

I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else. ”

I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls. ”

My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder. ”