I played the young Reese Witherspoon in ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10.
DAKOTA FANNINGOne of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you’d never do in real life.
More Dakota Fanning Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 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.
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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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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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People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. The one thing that I do know is, it doesn’t matter what any one of them tell you — nobody wants to be alone.
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It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.
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I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it’s all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
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It’s something that’s always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes – it’s been something that people have always talked about.
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My friends are the friends I’ve had forever, that’s kept me very sane.
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People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. Some people have something in their disposition. Maybe they were born too mean, or maybe they were born too tender.
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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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