I feel very lucky to have been able to travel and see different parts of the world.
DAKOTA FANNINGIt can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.
More Dakota Fanning Quotes
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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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The gunshot holds no fear!
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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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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’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded.
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Just for that alone, you’re kind of inherently given opportunity. That’s something that I’m very grateful for, but I’m also very aware of.
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I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That’s how much I love Hello Kitty.
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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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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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You have to stay true to your true friends and your family.
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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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The world is made up of the big things and the small ones. And the part that’s so unfair is that we call them ‘big’ and ‘small’ because when something happens to you.
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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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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 parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that’s why I’ve been seen as mature.
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It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.
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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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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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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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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 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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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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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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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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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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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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