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 FANNINGMy favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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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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I’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded.
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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’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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