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.
DAKOTA FANNINGIt’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.
More Dakota Fanning Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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You have to stay true to your true friends and your family.
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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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I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That’s how much I love Hello Kitty.
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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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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 learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.
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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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It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.
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