Dakota Fanning Quotes

#1. I can only live my life in this way. I don't think I would be living it a different way if I wasn't acting.

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#2. My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

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#3. I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.

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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. The gunshot holds no fear!

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#7. ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

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#8. When you're acting you put so much of yourself into working. As much fun as it is, it's still hard work and it's still a challenge.

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#9. It's cool that people enjoy my work. That's fun for me that people, like going to my movies and enjoy all the hard work that everyone put into it. I think that's the biggest reward, to know that everyone enjoyed the movies with me.

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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

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#13. I always talk about my characters like they're real people.

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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.

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#17. I've been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I've done have been very different, and all the characters I've done have been very different. I feel very lucky to have been able to do the movies that I've done.

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#18. I really enjoy what I'm doing. I think you have to have a good time and not look too far back or too far ahead.

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#19. I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

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#20. 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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#21. I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.

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#22. 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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#23. People recognize me all the time. I think it's really nice. I don't mind it at all. It feels kind of surreal when people know who you are and I think that it's really cool.

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#24. Doing the movies and meeting the people, and I like the stories of the movies. I like names a lot, too. When I do an audition, there is a script and it has a first page that has the names of all the characters. I'm like, Let me see that real quick, I wanna see what my name is gonna be.

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#25. 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.

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#26. 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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#27. In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take.

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#28. I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.

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#29. I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.

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#30. 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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#31. I think that when you're in the public eye, you automatically become a role model, because people are reading about you and looking at pictures of stuff you've done. But, you know, no one's perfect, everyone makes mistakes. I have made mistakes and I will make mistakes. I'm only human.

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#32. Is every moment of our lives built into us before we're born? If it is, does it make us less responsible for the things we do, or is the responsibility built in too?

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#33. The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.

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#34. 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.

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#35. My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.

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#36. 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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#37. I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

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#38. 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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#39. I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

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#40. I don't like to get things during the year, .. I like to wait for my birthday or Christmas. I may see something that I'll say, 'I'd really like that for my birthday.' I like to have things to look forward to.

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#41. That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.

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#42. 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.

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#43. I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.

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#44. 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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#45. It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time.

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#46. I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

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#47. Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.

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#48. Well, we became a vegetarian. But that didn't last very long, because, um, I don't like vegetables. Or salad, nothing like that!

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#49. 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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#50. When everything in your life is right on track, it's easy to believe that things happen for a reason. It's easy to have faith. But when things start to go wrong, then it's very hard to hold on to that faith. It's hard not to wonder who's reasons these things are happening for.

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#51. My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.

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#52. 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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