"My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions"
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The line is carefully casual, but it’s doing PR-grade boundary work. “Curious” converts potentially invasive scrutiny into something benign and human. “Questions” implies consent and dialogue, not gossip or consumption. It’s an image of fame managed through conversation rather than spectacle, which fits Watson’s broader public persona: self-possessed, intentional, allergic to tabloid chaos.
Context matters here: Watson’s fame arrived early and at industrial scale, attached to a franchise that manufactured global parasocial relationships before social media fully matured. For someone who grew up with her face as a commodity, reclaiming “my friends” as a private space is loaded. She’s reassuring fans that she hasn’t been alienated, signaling to interviewers that she won’t dish, and quietly asserting that the people who knew her before the brand still get to know her now.
It’s disarmingly polite. That politeness is the strategy.
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| Topic | Friendship |
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Watson, Emma. (2026, January 17). My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-friends-are-all-really-nice-about-my-fame-47371/
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"My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-friends-are-all-really-nice-about-my-fame-47371/. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.






