S.J. Watson Quotes

I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.

I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble. They found me and picked me for the part. And now I'm desperately trying to find my way through it.

No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality.

My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.

I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.

I see wings dancing around me Beleive in your dreams.

I can't wait to be able to drive, but it's hard. Good driving doesn't really run in my family genes. My mother is possibly the worst driver ever.

In Cancún, I felt like I had walked into an American teen movie.

We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change.

It's very hard to describe your own style. And I'm young, so I'm still experimenting. But I think it's quite British and very much about individuality.

Being an actress, I find myself people-watching and I can be quite shy.

If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

I genuinely haven't really had a rebellious phase. I think it's just because of the way I was brought up. I think it's because I left home when I was ten years old.

I think there's this idea that lipstick is something quite old or something you'd only wear at night.

It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.

But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be.

It's quite stressful knowing that every time you walk out the door, someone is going to be giving you a very good look up and down, judging everything you wear.

As I've got older, and since I cut all my hair off, I've felt a bit more liberated about trying different things out.

I've got about eight pairs of shoes, and that's it.

I have to kind of like switch heads. Sometimes I manage it seamlessly, and other times I feel rather all over the place. I feel a bit schizophrenic, like I have a split personality.

Men don't have the benefits of equality either.

I would love to not date someone in the same industry as me. Otherwise it becomes what it means to everyone else.

My cinematic crush has been pretty much the same since I was 12: Kevin Costner.

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom.

I wasn't one of those girls who always dreamed of being an actress. I went to a normal school and then these film auditioners turned up when I was nine. Then I just fell into this whirlwind.

Oh, I think Rupert's gorgeous. He is, he's totally gorgeous! Very handsome, very handsome indeed.

I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.

When I was younger, they used to tease me. And now they’re quite protective.

I didnt know there were so many ways you could walk down stairs until the day we filmed Hermiones entrance into the Yule Ball Hall.

I don't know anything about American history or presidents. I don't know what tailgating is! I've never been to an Olive Garden!

Obviously, I'm recognized on the street and I am away from home a lot more and, let's face it, I have an action figure of myself!

We need female advocates. I'd love to live in a world where there are as many women in parliament as men.

When I haven't been working I've tried to travel a lot.

If I'm feeling tired, I just say, 'I'm going to paint my nails purple and put some lipstick on!'

As wonderful as charity is, that money runs out. It's not sustainable. It lasts for a certain period of time and it's gone. What i really think people need is the opportunity to help themselves.

I get sent Bibles. I have a collection of about 20 in my room. People think I need to be guided.

When people call me a role model it puts the fear of god into me, because I feel like I'm destined to fail.

We need to make sure that we are using technology, and technology is not using us.

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.

I'm going to be the most competitive birth-giver ever.

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.

In the film industry you work very long hours, and making a film is a very intense process.

If I were in the director's chair, I would cast [Geena Davis] in something awesome every six months if I had the choice.

I definitly wouldn't want Harry Potter to be the last thing I do.

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.

I just love music generally. If you come to my house I always have music playing.

I'm lucky that I've worked with so many different directors with very different styles and with a lot of different actors.

I really never break the rules. I'm not scared to say what I think or if I really disagree with something then I'll say it, but I'm not kind of like a born rebel.

I've never really had any barrier to break I guess. I don't really have anything to rebel against. I'm quite lucky.