Dakota Fanning Quotes

If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.

I have never been married. I don't know if I will ever marry, though I hope to. When I am asked why I have not married, I explain that my parents have been happily married for 42 years. The bar feels so very high for that kind of commitment.

I still think marriage is a goofy institution if you set it up as this institution with a predetermined set of rules. It's unhealthy to have a predisposed expectation of what you think a marriage should be - as this thing at the end of the rainbow. False expectations take away joy.

My poor mom really wants me to meet someone. I think she wanted to believe the Ryan Gosling rumor more than anybody.

The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.

As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

I love movies, but I think people think relationships are supposed to go how they go in movies. The ones I like are the ones that represent life.

I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.

I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent.

Especially in writing love stories, there's always the assumption that once you've said 'I do,' once you get to the point where you're married, well, the hard part is over.

I don't believe in 'happy ever after' at all as a concept.

I'd like to be with someone kind who can hold a conversation and is in my age group. If that's too much to ask, I'll do without.

Nobody ever went and saw The Midnight Express and thought their match was bad.

I think the way I approach things has something to do with growing up and seeing my parents go to work every day.

I want to have a big family. My parents have been together for 36 years, and that is what I want. I am in that place. It's all good in that part of my life. It's one part of my life that I'm learning about every day. I've been challenged a lot by it, but it's the most rewarding part.

It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship.

Better no marriage, than a marriage short of the best.

I wouldn't want to enter into a relationship in which there was this inhibiting factor that said it can never be forever.

I don't think it's natural for two people to swear to be together for the rest of their lives.

Modern multiple divorce is rooted in the fact that many are seeking in human relationships what human relationships can never give. Why do they have multiple divorce, instead of merely promiscuous affairs? Because they are seeking more than merely sexual relationship.

I'm aware of how pop culture really infiltrates your expectations in a way that even if you think you're savvy about pop culture, it's so hard not to have these expectations of what a relationship should be. So I constantly feel like I have to bat those expectations down.

There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.

All marriages have a time limit if you enter them for the wrong reasons. Marriage doesn't get easier...it only gets harder. If you marry someone hoping it will improve things, you might as well set your timer the second you say, 'I do.

I truly believe in love, and I think that every relationship should start the way that our relationship started with our first love when we were 16, 17 or 18.