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.
DAKOTA FANNINGIt’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.
More Dakota Fanning Quotes
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My job is all about getting inside another person’s mind and thoughts.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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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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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.
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With all of the characters I’ve played, I feel like I’ve tried to communicate through my eyes and face, as much or more than with words. That’s something that I like to watch in films, and something that I like to bring to the characters that I play.
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It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.
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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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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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It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.
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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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The gunshot holds no fear!
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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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My friends are the friends I’ve had forever, that’s kept me very sane.
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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 favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
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