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