One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you’d never do in real life.
DAKOTA FANNINGI’ve been a ballerina since I was two, but I’ve always wanted to be an actress.
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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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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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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 favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
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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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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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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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It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.
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Don’t touch your brows. I’ve never done anything to my eyebrows.
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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’ve been a ballerina since I was two, but I’ve always wanted to be an actress.
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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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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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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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