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.
DAKOTA FANNINGMy friends are the friends I’ve had forever, that’s kept me very sane.
More Dakota Fanning Quotes
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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’m very proud to be a woman – you’re part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That’s really special.
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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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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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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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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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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’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded.
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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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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 parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that’s why I’ve been seen as mature.
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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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I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That’s how much I love Hello Kitty.
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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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