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People 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.

Dakota Fanning

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.
DAKOTA FANNING

Blue Eye People
My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that’s why I’ve been seen as mature.
DAKOTA FANNING

Kids Mature Parents
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.
DAKOTA FANNING

Care Loose May Something World Wrong
With all of the characters I’ve played, I feel like I’ve tried to communicate through my eyes and face, as much or more than with words. That’s something that I like to watch in films, and something that I like to bring to the characters that I play.
DAKOTA FANNING

Character Eye Play
One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you’d never do in real life.
DAKOTA FANNING

Different Favorites Real Things
My friends are the friends I’ve had forever, that’s kept me very sane.
DAKOTA FANNING

Forever Friends Sane
I’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded.
DAKOTA FANNING

Beach Girl Hats
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.
DAKOTA FANNING

Boys Home Sweet
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 FANNING

Reason Television Watches
I feel very lucky to have been able to travel and see different parts of the world.
DAKOTA FANNING

Different Lucky World
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.
DAKOTA FANNING

Character Opposites Play
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.
DAKOTA FANNING

Insecurity Looks People
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

Grandparent Player Tennis
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.
DAKOTA FANNING

Alone Anybody Different Reason Tell
My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it’s Hannah Dakota Fanning.
DAKOTA FANNING

Dad Mom Names
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.
DAKOTA FANNING

Light Long Mean

People 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.

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People 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.

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