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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

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
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
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
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
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
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
When you loose something or someone that your really care about, that’s all there is. The world may be blowing up around you, but you don’t care about that. You don’t care about that at all.
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About Care Lose Someone Something
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
I’ve been a ballerina since I was two, but I’ve always wanted to be an actress.
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Actresses Ballerina Two
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
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.
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Crazy Opportunity Years
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 think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That’s how much I love Hello Kitty.
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Hello Kitty Thinking
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.
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Appreciating Connection Knowing
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 feel very lucky to have been able to travel and see different parts of the world.
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Different Lucky World
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’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded.
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Beach Girl Hats
The gunshot holds no fear!
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Fear Gunshot No
I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it’s always been something we have in common.
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College Fashion Mom
You have to stay true to your true friends and your family.
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Friend Our Family Stay True True
My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
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Actresses Andrew Country Favorite Person
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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Acting Fun Thinking
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
It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.
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Craziness Easy Insecurity
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 was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
DAKOTA FANNING

Grandparent Player Tennis

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.

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