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.
DAKOTA FANNINGI’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded.
More Dakota Fanning Quotes
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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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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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My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
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My friends are the friends I’ve had forever, that’s kept me very sane.
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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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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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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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It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.
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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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My job is all about getting inside another person’s mind and thoughts.
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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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I’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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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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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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