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 FANNINGI 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 FANNINGI was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it’s always been something we have in common.
DAKOTA FANNINGDon’t touch your brows. I’ve never done anything to my eyebrows.
DAKOTA FANNINGSometimes 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 FANNINGPeople 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.
DAKOTA FANNINGMy dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it’s Hannah Dakota Fanning.
DAKOTA FANNINGMy 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 FANNINGPeople 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.
DAKOTA FANNINGActing 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.
DAKOTA FANNINGOne of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you’d never do in real life.
DAKOTA FANNINGWhen 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.
DAKOTA FANNINGI 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.
DAKOTA FANNINGI think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That’s how much I love Hello Kitty.
DAKOTA FANNINGI love the feeling I get when I’m on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.
DAKOTA FANNINGI learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.
DAKOTA FANNINGI feel very lucky to have been able to travel and see different parts of the world.
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