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.
DAKOTA FANNINGI learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.
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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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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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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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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The world is made up of the big things and the small ones. And the part that’s so unfair is that we call them ‘big’ and ‘small’ because when something happens to you.
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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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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it’s Hannah Dakota Fanning.
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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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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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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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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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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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My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
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