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 FANNINGI’ve been a ballerina since I was two, but I’ve always wanted to be an actress.
More Dakota Fanning Quotes
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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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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’ve been a ballerina since I was two, but I’ve always wanted to be an actress.
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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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My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
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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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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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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 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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My job is all about getting inside another person’s mind and thoughts.
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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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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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I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That’s how much I love Hello Kitty.
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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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