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.
DAKOTA FANNINGIt’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.
More Dakota Fanning Quotes
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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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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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Don’t touch your brows. I’ve never done anything to my eyebrows.
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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 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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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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My job is all about getting inside another person’s mind and thoughts.
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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 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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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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You have to stay true to your true friends and your family.
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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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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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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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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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