I’ve been a ballerina since I was two, but I’ve always wanted to be an actress.
DAKOTA FANNINGDon’t touch your brows. I’ve never done anything to my eyebrows.
More Dakota Fanning Quotes
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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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I’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded.
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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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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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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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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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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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My friends are the friends I’ve had forever, that’s kept me very sane.
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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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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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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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I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That’s how much I love Hello Kitty.
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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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I love the feeling I get when I’m on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.
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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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