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.
DAKOTA FANNINGYou 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.
More Dakota Fanning Quotes
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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 always able to find light moments on any set, no matter what. Just because a scene is heavy doesn’t mean that you have to be heavy, all day long. I was working with people who had a sense of humor and wanted to have those light moments with me.
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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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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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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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Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.
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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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You have to stay true to your true friends and your family.
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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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I’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded.
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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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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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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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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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