One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you’d never do in real life.
DAKOTA FANNINGI think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That’s how much I love Hello Kitty.
More Dakota Fanning Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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My job is all about getting inside another person’s mind and thoughts.
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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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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.
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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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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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The gunshot holds no fear!
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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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