My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
DAKOTA FANNINGSometimes 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.
More Dakota Fanning Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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There’s just something you can relate to immediately, even without knowing a woman. It’s an inherent thing, an inherent connection. I’m really appreciating it and valuing that.
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It’s what I love about what I do and the life that I’m able to have and be able to just be so normal one day and be here the next…I feel so lucky to be able to do what I do.
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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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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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You have to stay true to your true friends and your family.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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