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

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" I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed. "

" 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've always been fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor, and I had read that her first kiss happened on a film set, which actually made me a little sad. You need to have normal experiences of your own. "

" I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin. "

" 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. "

" I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way. "

" Some days, for some reason, I can't go anywhere, and I'm like, 'That was a mistake,' and other days no one will even notice me. "

" But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn. "

" Now, honestly, every movie set that I go on, I walk onto set with the confidence that there is nothing that they can throw at me that's gonna surprise me. "

" The difficulty for me is that I'm interested in so many different things. I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. "

" I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table! "

" Hermione is so close to who I am as a person that I've never really had to research a role. I'm literally rediscovering what it means to be an actress. "

" I feel like a voodoo doll. It's grim. It's gross. "

" 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 went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times. "

" All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone. "

Please Everyone

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

" To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against? "

" I could be 100 years old and in my rocker, but I'll still be very proud that I was part of the 'Harry Potter' films. "

" Let's be honest, I have enough money to never have to work again. "

" I love Karl Lagerfeld. I worship him. I was brought up in Paris, and my mum used to wear a lot of Chanel. I love the brand. "

" Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time! "

" Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy. "

" I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy. "

" If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of... it's sort of like a domino effect. "

" With 'Harry Potter,' I've been all over the world. I probably wouldn't have gone to New York so young if it weren't for the films. "

" I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult. "

" People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating; there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish. "