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.
DAKOTA FANNINGPeople like to examine the things that frighten them, to look at them and give them names, so saints look for god, and scientists look for evidence. They’re both just trying to take away from the mystery, to take away from the fear.
More Dakota Fanning Quotes
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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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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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My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
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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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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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I’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded.
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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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I’ve been a ballerina since I was two, but I’ve always wanted to be an actress.
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You have to stay true to your true friends and your family.
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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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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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Don’t touch your brows. I’ve never done anything to my eyebrows.
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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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I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That’s how much I love Hello Kitty.
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