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I’ve been able to go so many places. I had the opportunity to go to Hong Kong when I was thirteen years old which is crazy. I lived there for three months. It was amazing. I couldn’t ask for a more enriched life so far.

Dakota Fanning

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

Jobs Mind Thought
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
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
I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.
DAKOTA FANNING

School Two Young
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
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
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
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
I’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded.
DAKOTA FANNING

Beach Girl Hats
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
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.
DAKOTA FANNING

Advice Committed Hundred
You have to stay true to your true friends and your family.
DAKOTA FANNING

Friend Our Family Stay True True
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
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
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

I’ve been able to go so many places. I had the opportunity to go to Hong Kong when I was thirteen years old which is crazy. I lived there for three months. It was amazing. I couldn’t ask for a more enriched life so far.

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I’ve been able to go so many places. I had the opportunity to go to Hong Kong when I was thirteen years old which is crazy. I lived there for three months. It was amazing. I couldn’t ask for a more enriched life so far.

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