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 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 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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I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That’s how much I love Hello Kitty.
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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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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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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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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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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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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’m always able to find light moments on any set, no matter what. Just because a scene is heavy doesn’t mean that you have to be heavy, all day long. I was working with people who had a sense of humor and wanted to have those light moments with me.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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