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 FANNINGPeople 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 FANNINGPeople 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 FANNINGMy parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that’s why I’ve been seen as mature.
DAKOTA FANNINGI think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That’s how much I love Hello Kitty.
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.
DAKOTA FANNINGCourtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.
DAKOTA FANNINGYou 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 FANNINGIf 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 FANNINGI learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.
DAKOTA FANNINGIt’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 FANNINGI’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 FANNINGDear 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.
DAKOTA FANNINGWhen 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 FANNINGI love the feeling I get when I’m on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.
DAKOTA FANNINGI 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 FANNINGMy job is all about getting inside another person’s mind and thoughts.
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