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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.

Dakota Fanning

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.
DAKOTA FANNING

Believe Fire Men
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.
DAKOTA FANNING

Aware Just Opportunity
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
I’m very proud to be a woman – you’re part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That’s really special.
DAKOTA FANNING

Proud Special Tribes
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

Giving Names 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
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.
DAKOTA FANNING

Appreciating Connection Knowing
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.
DAKOTA FANNING

Communication Energy Eye
My job is all about getting inside another person’s mind and thoughts.
DAKOTA FANNING

Jobs Mind Thought
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 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
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
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.
DAKOTA FANNING

Able Day Next One
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
The gunshot holds no fear!
DAKOTA FANNING

Fear Gunshot No
When you loose something or someone that your really care about, that’s all there is. The world may be blowing up around you, but you don’t care about that. You don’t care about that at all.
DAKOTA FANNING

About Care Lose Someone Something
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.
DAKOTA FANNING

Acting Fun Thinking
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
My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
DAKOTA FANNING

Actresses Andrew Country Favorite Person
Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.
DAKOTA FANNING

Daughter Love Mother
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
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
I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That’s how much I love Hello Kitty.
DAKOTA FANNING

Hello Kitty Thinking
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
DAKOTA FANNING

Baby Home Sister
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
Don’t touch your brows. I’ve never done anything to my eyebrows.
DAKOTA FANNING

Brows Done Eyebrows

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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