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.
DAKOTA FANNINGCourtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.
More Dakota Fanning Quotes
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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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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 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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I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That’s how much I love Hello Kitty.
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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 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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I feel very lucky to have been able to travel and see different parts of the world.
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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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My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain.
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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 a ballerina since I was two, but I’ve always wanted to be an actress.
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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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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’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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People like to examine the things that frighten them, to look at them and give them names, so saints look for god, and scientists look for evidence. They’re both just trying to take away from the mystery, to take away from the fear.
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