I’ve been a ballerina since I was two, but I’ve always wanted to be an actress.
DAKOTA FANNINGOne of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you’d never do in real life.
More Dakota Fanning Quotes
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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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You have to stay true to your true friends and your family.
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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 can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.
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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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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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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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The gunshot holds no fear!
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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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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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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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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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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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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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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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