I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.
DAKOTA FANNINGMy job is all about getting inside another person’s mind and thoughts.
More Dakota Fanning Quotes
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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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I’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded.
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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 feel very lucky to have been able to travel and see different parts of the world.
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Don’t touch your brows. I’ve never done anything to my eyebrows.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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