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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.

Dakota Fanning

My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it’s Hannah Dakota Fanning.
DAKOTA FANNING

Dad Mom Names
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 FANNING

Character Eye Play
Dear God, I do not ask for health or wealth. People ask you so often that you can’t have any left. Give me, God, what else you have. Give me what no-one else asks for. Amen.
DAKOTA FANNING

Dear Giving God People
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.
DAKOTA FANNING

Light Long Mean
I’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded.
DAKOTA FANNING

Beach Girl Hats
It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.
DAKOTA FANNING

Craziness Easy Insecurity
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.
DAKOTA FANNING

Hard Mom School Work
My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that’s why I’ve been seen as mature.
DAKOTA FANNING

Kids Mature Parents
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.
DAKOTA FANNING

Character Feeling Reading
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.
DAKOTA FANNING

Acting Fun Thinking
I’ve been able to go so many places. I had the opportunity to go to Hong Kong when I was thirteen years old which is crazy. I lived there for three months. It was amazing. I couldn’t ask for a more enriched life so far.
DAKOTA FANNING

Crazy Opportunity Years
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.
DAKOTA FANNING

Communication Energy Eye
When 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 FANNING

About Care Lose Someone Something
The gunshot holds no fear!
DAKOTA FANNING

Fear Gunshot No
Don’t touch your brows. I’ve never done anything to my eyebrows.
DAKOTA FANNING

Brows Done Eyebrows
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.
DAKOTA FANNING

Believe Fire Men

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