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My job is all about getting inside another person’s mind and thoughts.

Dakota Fanning

Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I don’t think of it as work. It’s really fun for me.
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Acting Fun Thinking
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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Dear Giving God People
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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Alone Anybody Different Reason Tell
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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Character Feeling Reading
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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Reason Television Watches
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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Light Long Mean
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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Believe Fire Men
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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Daughter Love Mother
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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Boys Home Sweet
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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Actors Cool Made Really
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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Hard Mom School Work
I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it’s always been something we have in common.
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College Fashion Mom
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Baby Home Sister
My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
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Actresses Andrew Country Favorite Person
There’s just something you can relate to immediately, even without knowing a woman. It’s an inherent thing, an inherent connection. I’m really appreciating it and valuing that.
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Appreciating Connection Knowing
I feel very lucky to have been able to travel and see different parts of the world.
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Different Lucky World
I’ve been a ballerina since I was two, but I’ve always wanted to be an actress.
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Actresses Ballerina Two
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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Character Eye Play
The gunshot holds no fear!
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Fear Gunshot No
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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Communication Energy Eye
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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Dad Mom Names
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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Different Favorites Real Things
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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School Two Young
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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Kids Mature Parents
My job is all about getting inside another person’s mind and thoughts.
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Jobs Mind Thought
It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.
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Craziness Easy Insecurity
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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Insecurity Looks People

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