Dakota Fanning Quotes

All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.

I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.

One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

I love to do very long and complicated scenes.

As an actor, the only thing you have is your instinct and your imagination.

When you act with phenomenal actors, it makes your job much easier because all you have to do is react.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

I think back story can help guide your choices, but when you're playing a scene, you're not making choices; you're just intuitive.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

Acting to me is always reacting.

I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.

The key to acting - from what little I know about that wonderful craft - is listening, and interacting with the other person in order to achieve magic. One way to do that is almost to provoke.

I try to be a good, diligent actor.

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.