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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.

Dakota Fanning

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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Character Eye Play
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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Actors Cool Made Really
The gunshot holds no fear!
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Fear Gunshot No
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.
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Grandparent Player Tennis
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
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
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 think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That’s how much I love Hello Kitty.
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Hello Kitty Thinking
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
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.
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Character Feeling Reading
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
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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Alone Anybody Different Reason Tell
My friends are the friends I’ve had forever, that’s kept me very sane.
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Forever Friends Sane
It’s hard to remember when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That’s so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who’s sometimes in those magazines.
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Insecurity Looks People
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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Daughter Love Mother
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Baby Home Sister
Don’t touch your brows. I’ve never done anything to my eyebrows.
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Brows Done Eyebrows
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
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.
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Dear Giving God 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.
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Believe Fire Men
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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Communication Energy Eye
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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Boys Home Sweet
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 favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
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Actresses Andrew Country Favorite Person
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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Proud Special Tribes
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
It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.
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Craziness Easy Insecurity

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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