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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

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.
DAKOTA FANNING

Giving Names People
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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Reason Television Watches
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
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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Heart Lonely Mean
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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Kids Mature Parents
You 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.
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Advice Committed Hundred
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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Hard Mom School Work
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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Believe Fire Men
I feel very lucky to have been able to travel and see different parts of the world.
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Different Lucky World
My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
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Actresses Andrew Country Favorite Person
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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Insecurity Looks People
It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.
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Craziness Easy Insecurity
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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Actors Cool Made Really
One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you’d never do in real life.
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Different Favorites Real Things
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
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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Communication Energy Eye
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
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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Proud Special Tribes
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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Dad Mom Names
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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Blue Eye People
You have to stay true to your true friends and your family.
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Friend Our Family Stay True True
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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Character Opposites Play
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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Care Loose May Something World Wrong
I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.
DAKOTA FANNING

School Two Young
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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Aware Just Opportunity
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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Character Eye Play
The gunshot holds no fear!
DAKOTA FANNING

Fear Gunshot No

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