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I’ve been a ballerina since I was two, but I’ve always wanted to be an actress.

Dakota Fanning

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 feel very lucky to have been able to travel and see different parts of the world.
DAKOTA FANNING

Different Lucky World
I played the young Reese Witherspoon in ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10.
DAKOTA FANNING

Boys Home Sweet
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
Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.
DAKOTA FANNING

Daughter Love Mother
It’s what I love about what I do and the life that I’m able to have and be able to just be so normal one day and be here the next…I feel so lucky to be able to do what I do.
DAKOTA FANNING

Able Day Next One
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
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
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
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.
DAKOTA FANNING

Proud Special Tribes
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
There’s just something you can relate to immediately, even without knowing a woman. It’s an inherent thing, an inherent connection. I’m really appreciating it and valuing that.
DAKOTA FANNING

Appreciating Connection Knowing
My job is all about getting inside another person’s mind and thoughts.
DAKOTA FANNING

Jobs Mind Thought
I’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded.
DAKOTA FANNING

Beach Girl Hats
My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
DAKOTA FANNING

Actresses Andrew Country Favorite Person
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

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