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.
DAKOTA FANNINGYou 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.
More Dakota Fanning Quotes
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My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
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Don’t touch your brows. I’ve never done anything to my eyebrows.
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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’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 friends are the friends I’ve had forever, that’s kept me very sane.
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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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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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I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That’s how much I love Hello Kitty.
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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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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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The gunshot holds no fear!
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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 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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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 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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