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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Don’t touch your brows. I’ve never done anything to my eyebrows.
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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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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 was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it’s always been something we have in common.
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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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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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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’ve been a ballerina since I was two, but I’ve always wanted to be an actress.
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There’s just something you can relate to immediately, even without knowing a woman. It’s an inherent thing, an inherent connection. I’m really appreciating it and valuing that.
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