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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

Dakota Fanning

My friends are the friends I’ve had forever, that’s kept me very sane.
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Forever Friends Sane
I feel very lucky to have been able to travel and see different parts of the world.
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Different Lucky World
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
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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Advice Committed Hundred
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
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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Character Opposites Play
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’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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Proud Special Tribes
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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Blue Eye People
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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Crazy Opportunity Years
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
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
It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.
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Craziness Easy Insecurity
Don’t touch your brows. I’ve never done anything to my eyebrows.
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Brows Done Eyebrows
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
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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Able Day Next One

I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

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