Emma Watson Quotes

I think it frustrates me that so many people have bought into the idea of what we should look like instead of actually giving a crap about everyone around you.

I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.

I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn't an easy road. I still don't always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me.

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.

A few years ago I lost 30 pounds, and people still wanted to criticize. And honestly, I'm happy with myself if I'm a little heavier. I realized: 'Why am I trying to conform to someone else's idea of beauty?' I think I'm beautiful either way.

Some people say I'm not a very pretty woman, but I'm a very beautiful woman inside.

It means a lot to everyone around me that I look good, and I don't think it should have to. I just think I should look the way I do.

As long as I'm always myself, my looks don't matter.

When I was 15, I didn't think I was the prettiest at all. But then something happened when I was 20-something - I thought, actually, I really like what I look like. Just because I don't look like everybody else doesn't mean that I can't be just as beautiful.

When someone tells me that I'm not real, I say to them, 'Well, what about me isn't real?' I have not changed my figure. This is who I am.

If you don't like the look of my face, don't look at me! I'm the one who has to live with it.

A story and character are most important for me, not how I look, what clothes I wear, or what nail paint has been chosen for me.

Your looks do not define who you are.

Each woman needs to know herself and think that the clothes are here to make her more beautiful, because the person is more important than the clothes.

There's not one person that I say I want to look like.

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.

I don't think I'm particularly beautiful at all.

It's all about confidence and how you feel about yourself. There's no such thing as a perfect woman. I like imperfections - that's what makes you unique.

I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.