My friends are the friends I’ve had forever, that’s kept me very sane.
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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My job is all about getting inside another person’s mind and thoughts.
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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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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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I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.
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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’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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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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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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People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. The one thing that I do know is, it doesn’t matter what any one of them tell you — nobody wants to be alone.
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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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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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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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I’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded.
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The gunshot holds no fear!
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