I’ve been a ballerina since I was two, but I’ve always wanted to be an actress.
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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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 can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.
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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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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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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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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 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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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 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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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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My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
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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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People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. Some people have something in their disposition. Maybe they were born too mean, or maybe they were born too tender.
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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 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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