I’ve been a ballerina since I was two, but I’ve always wanted to be an actress.
DAKOTA FANNINGJust 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.
More Dakota Fanning Quotes
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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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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.
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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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My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
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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 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 feel very lucky to have been able to travel and see different parts of the world.
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It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.
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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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The gunshot holds no 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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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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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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