I’ve been a ballerina since I was two, but I’ve always wanted to be an actress.
DAKOTA FANNINGEvery 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.
More Dakota Fanning Quotes
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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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I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That’s how much I love Hello Kitty.
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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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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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Don’t touch your brows. I’ve never done anything to my eyebrows.
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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’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded.
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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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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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You have to stay true to your true friends and your family.
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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.
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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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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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The gunshot holds no fear!
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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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