Quotes
“I would be in an awkward position if I came to school with a Harry Potter T-shirt, since everyone would tease me. I am not about to wear I t-shirt with my own face on it! (laughs)”
– BRAVO Magazine, Published January 2006
“You mean other than the fact that Rupert looks at my chest? Laughs (Rupert blushes and looks embarrassed at the floor). Rupert, it was only a joke. We are since a couple of years like a family. We spend lots of time together and are like tight friends. Other than that, nothing has changed since the first movie. Except, maybe that we don’t see each other like comrades but more like friendly colleagues.”
– BRAVO Magazine, Published January 2006
“… our director Mike Newell. He brought all of the actors together and asked us to improvise love scenes. I was appalled. I was so humiliated, but then I saw that everyone else made a fool of themselves. Now I am not afraid to make a fool of myself.”
– BRAVO Magazine, Published January 2006
“I hope my head doesn’t get big, I am just going to keep my feet on the ground, stick with my friends and family, and try and lead a normal life.”
– Total Girl Magazine, Published January 2006
(regarding the Yule Ball) “I was a bit nervous, but I was in good hands. Mike knew exactly how awkward and clumsy a teen girl can feel when a guy asks her out for the very first time. I think that he made that Yule ball scene a really brilliant one. Hermione, Ron and Harry obviously begin to develop feelings for the opposite sex, and they don’t know how to handle with that. I think a lot of teenagers will recognize themselves in our characters.”
– Humo Magazine, Published January 2006
“The first time I danced with a guy was an absolute disaster. I never slowed again since that moment and I’m also never gonna do it again in my entire life! No way! In that way I’m kind of like Hermione. She doesn’t know what to think about boys and she definitely doesn’t know how to handle with them. (laughs)”
– Humo Magazine, Published January 2006
“In the beginning Harry Potter was something that happened to me. I didn’t understand what was happening to me and I absolutely didn’t know how to behave: it was like I’d landed in the eye of a tornado. But when I got older, I gained self-confidence. I also pay more and more attention to the technical aspects: what would it look like if I stood here? How do I have to stand in front of the camera to look right? Sometimes I even raise my voice against the director (laughs).”
– Humo Magazine, Published January 2006
“I try to lead a very normal life, but Harry Potter has created some sort of wedge between me and my classmates. I often have the feeling that there’s a great distance between us, and I don’t like that. I also often have the feeling that a lot of great things are passing me by, just because I have to put so much time in the movies.”
– Humo Magazine, Published January 2006
(Interviewer asks Emma if she’d sooner have a great Hollywood career or a great marriage) “Hmmmmm… Can’t I have both? (laughs) But if I would really have to choose, then I’d pick a great marriage. I think it would be amazing if I would get to play beautiful parts and win Oscars, but that would all mean nothing if my parents and friends weren’t there with me. What is success when you don’t have anybody to love? No, I’d rather be happily married.”
– Humo Magazine, Published January 2006
“When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a fairy after being a princess… ha, ha, ha… finally, like it was impossible I decided I wanted to be an actress”
– 20 Minutes Interview, Spanish Newspaper, Published January 2006
“It was a duckling into swan kind of moment.” (Coming down the steps before the Yule Ball)
– Dateline, Published 2005
“I love being the bossy girl, it’s great.”
– The Early Show, 2005
“They had always played down the way I was suppose to look in the films and suddenly they really wanted this Julia Roberts, Pretty Womenesqe moment, and it was really good fun.”
– The Early Show, 2005
“I don’t think any of this could ever really get old.”
– The Early Show, 2005
“For me, what keeps me really interested is that we have a new director every single time around. I always learn something new, they always bring something to it, they always have their own separate vision.”
– The Early Show, 2005
“They are both like big brothers to me than anything else.” (Daniel and Rupert)
– Regis and Kelly, 2005
“I love coming to New York, it makes it all worth it.” (Premiere)
– Showbiz Tonight, 2005
“It’s always been about remaining faithful to the book.”
– Showbiz Tonight, 2005
“I’d read all three before I started auditioning, I was a huge, huge fan.”
– Showbiz Tonight, 2005
“I have to say I kind of agree with Dan. I have a really nasty feeling that Voldemort can’t keep on existing while Harry’s alive. I think Voldemorts going to die but I think he’s going to bring Harry down with him. Which is sad, but I think it’s going to happen, and I think, I really hope Hermione and Ron get together in the end. I think they’d make a good couple.”
– Showbiz Tonight, 2005
“I want to finish my education. I’m going to take my levels. I want to go to university. In between that on my holidays and stuff I would definitely like to try something else. I wouldn’t want Harry Potter to be the last thing I do.”
– Showbiz Tonight, 2005
“Believe in yourself, and go for it” (Advice for aspiring young actors)
– NY Premiere AOL Red Carpet, 2005
“I was on the edge of my seat for the whole of the film, it’s terrifying.” (Talking about Goblet of Fire)
– UK Premiere CBS 2005
“I definitely don’t want (The) Harry (Potter films) to be the last thing I do so um, I thought I’d try some theatre, maybe more of a character, I’m looking, I’m looking.”
– UK Premiere HBO Asia 2005
“I know for the first time after all these films of talking about him and muttering his name under their breath you do get to see him for the first time, played brilliantly by Ralph Fiennes.” (Voldemort’s first appearance)
– UK Premiere Live Broadcast 2005
“It’s very funny because the girls get up and are really ready to go and dance while the guys are like uhhh yeah I’m not getting up and dancing. It was good fun to do.” (Dancing at the Yule ball)
– ABC TV Special 2005
“I always say this every time but it’s my favorite so far.” (Goblet of Fire movie)
– E! Behind the Scenes 2005
“I think it’s great for people to see that Hogwarts isn’t the only wizarding institution.”
– E! Behind the Scenes 2005
“I have a lot of respect for Mike (Newell). I genuinely think he is brilliant.”
– E! Behind the Scenes 2005
“He likes her, she likes him, they’re really different, but they’re prefect. Ehh it’s just going to happen.” (Ron Hermione relationship)
– E! Behind the Scenes 2005
“Ron and Hermione have to watch Harry compete in these grueling tasks and I know it takes a toll on Hermione.”
– EA Making the GoF Video game 2005
(On watching the earlier movies)
“It’s like baby photos… I look like a chipmunk”
-Life Magazine November 2005
“I’ve been asked to sign weird things-like someone’s arm in permanent ink, which I didn’t want to do because I was worried they’d get blood poisoning.”
-Life Magazine November 2005
“I get sent Bibles. I have a collection of about 20 in my room. People think I need to be guided.”
-Life Magazine November 2005
(Who’s the coolest person you’ve ever met?)
“Johnny Depp. He’s lovely.”
-Life Magazine November 2005
“I’ve always wanted, more than anything, to just mush in with everybody else.”
-Evening Standard Magazine November 2005
“It’s very hard to tell a dog, “Do it again, you weren’t sitting in the right position.” You have to be quite patient because Fang drools everywhere. It takes ages to get off your robes, and Hedwig flies in the wrong direction.”
– Scholastic News, Published 2002
“There were 300 extras in the same room for one whole week. Everyone is dying of boredom and they need to be laughing; Robbie Coltrane had to stand up on the tables and dance. They did the Macarena and the cancan, and it worked! It was the highlight of the whole filming! I never laughed so much in my life!”
– Scholastic News, Published 2002
“Hermione gets such mouthfuls; it’s like a tongue twister in each paragraph. She talks like a dictionary. She is a dictionary.”
– Scholastic News, Published 2002
“Most of the change happened during the first film. I occasionally get recognized. I think everyone’s been a bit more enjoyable on the second film, because they know the people and they know what they’re doing.”
– Scholastic News, Published 2002
“Going back to school is alright – I go to a very big school and some people give me a bit of stick. They walk past and go “Wingardium Leviosa” for the billionth time that day, and I go aaagggghhhhhh! But apart from that most people are really nice about it.”
– CBBC Newsround Interview, Published 11/11/2002
(regarding hugging Dan) “I mean, running down a Great Hall in front of 300 actors is so embarrassing. I made a deal with him, though, as long as he didn’t do it in slow motion, and he didn’t put soppy music behind it!”
– CBBC Newsround Interview, Published 11/11/2002
“Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words.. I don’t know what she’s going on about half the time!”
– Total DVD Online Interview, Published 2002
“..let’s face it, I have an action figure of myself! But apart from that I’m just trying to keep my life as normal as possible.”
– Total DVD Online Interview, Published 2002
“I’ve watched the film about four to five times now. It’s really weird to see yourself on the big screen. I find that I’m always looking at mistakes and not the good bits.”
– Time For Kids Magazine, Published 11/4/2002
“I am also much more obsessed with clothes and shopping whereas Hermione has no fashion sense at all.”
– Time For Kids Magazine, Published 11/4/2002
“It’s (the films) not necessarily getting much scarier or darker, it’s just getting more mature, I suppose. It really does depend on the kid. I took in a 5 year-old of my friend’s, and I was the one cowering in my seat. It just depends on the kid, really.”
– Red Carpet Interview with “About”, Published 11/15/2002
“It’s the acting which I really really enjoy and even when you take away all the glamour, the attention and the premieres, it all comes down to the fact that you are acting. And just being with so many fantastic actors and directors and just the people I work with.”
– Zap2it, Published 11/17/2002
“Well, I don’t go out saying ‘Holy cricket,’ too much but not really, I don’t know. Sometimes I found myself saying lines from the film but not very often.”
– Zap2it, Published 11/17/2002
“I think I can be 100 years old and be in my rockers but I will always be proud to say I was in Harry Potter.”
– Zap2it, Published 11/17/2002
“It’s the scariest thing that’s ever happened to me, it’s the biggest thing that’s ever happened to me, and it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me! I really enjoyed making the film and I’d love to think that people would look up to me. That’s very flattering.”
– Citysearch Interview, Published 2001
“[Producer] David Heyman actually invited [Rupert Grint] and me to come in. We sat down in his office—very casual—and he said, “You’ve got the part.” I was so shocked and I just stood there and said, “Pinch me!”
– - CBBC Newsround Interview, Published 10/30/2001
“Hermione always has some snooty lines for Ron. He gets the worst of it really.”
– CBBC Newsround Interview, Published 10/30/2001
“My dad told me, ‘’You know, you do realize there are going to be, like, a thousand girls auditioning.’’ And I was kind of like, ‘’Oh, OK…I’ll, um, keep that in mind.’’ I tried to enjoy it instead of desperately trying for it.”
– - Entertainment Weekly, Published 2001
“I don’t feel like a hero. It’s kind of weird to think that toddlers all around the world will be playing with me. Oh, that’s awful, that’s scary, but…amazing.” (on Hermione doll)
– - Entertainment Weekly, Published 2001