My job is all about getting inside another person’s mind and thoughts.
DAKOTA FANNINGMy favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
More Dakota Fanning Quotes
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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 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.
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My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
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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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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 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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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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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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I’ve been a ballerina since I was two, but I’ve always wanted to be an actress.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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You have to stay true to your true friends and your family.
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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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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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I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That’s how much I love Hello Kitty.
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My friends are the friends I’ve had forever, that’s kept me very sane.
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It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.
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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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