My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain.
DAKOTA FANNINGI learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.
More Dakota Fanning Quotes
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People like to examine the things that frighten them, to look at them and give them names, so saints look for god, and scientists look for evidence. They’re both just trying to take away from the mystery, to take away from the fear.
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When you loose something or someone that your really care about, that’s all there is. The world may be blowing up around you, but you don’t care about that. You don’t care about that at all.
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One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you’d never do in real life.
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It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.
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My friends are the friends I’ve had forever, that’s kept me very sane.
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Dear God, I do not ask for health or wealth. People ask you so often that you can’t have any left. Give me, God, what else you have. Give me what no-one else asks for. Amen.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that’s why I’ve been seen as mature.
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Don’t touch your brows. I’ve never done anything to my eyebrows.
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Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I don’t think of it as work. It’s really fun for me.
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Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that’s the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all.
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I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.
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I’ve been a ballerina since I was two, but I’ve always wanted to be an actress.
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I’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded.
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It’s what I love about what I do and the life that I’m able to have and be able to just be so normal one day and be here the next…I feel so lucky to be able to do what I do.
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I love the feeling I get when I’m on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.
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