It’s hard to remember when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That’s so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who’s sometimes in those magazines.
DAKOTA FANNINGEvery day, we communicate more with our energy, body language, face and eyes. That really is what communication is, and not so much words. And it’s rare that you get to explore that in a film.
More Dakota Fanning Quotes
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If I see a movie on TV that I’m in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It’s like I’m watching another person.
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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.
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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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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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It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.
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Don’t touch your brows. I’ve never done anything to my eyebrows.
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The world is made up of the big things and the small ones. And the part that’s so unfair is that we call them ‘big’ and ‘small’ because when something happens to you.
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I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That’s how much I love Hello Kitty.
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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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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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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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There’s just something you can relate to immediately, even without knowing a woman. It’s an inherent thing, an inherent connection. I’m really appreciating it and valuing that.
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Just for that alone, you’re kind of inherently given opportunity. That’s something that I’m very grateful for, but I’m also very aware of.
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Every day, we communicate more with our energy, body language, face and eyes. That really is what communication is, and not so much words. And it’s rare that you get to explore that in a film.
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You have to be totally one hundred per cent committed to act. I do value everyone else’s advice, but ultimately I have to listen to myself.
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