Dakota Fanning Quotes

I think that acting is no fun unless it's hard. I'm not titillated by acting or being an actor unless I have to work hard.

The most important thing I learned from Dad about show business was never take myself seriously and never stop having fun with my craft.

The challenge and love, for me, of acting is if you get to transform or do something you haven't done before. That's fun.

Acting is like playing, while directing is really fun, sort of like an orgy.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

Broadway is one of the hardest things I've ever done.

It is first and foremost very hard work! But I have a wonderful part and I do have fun. The company, cast and crew of 'Passions' are wonderful to work with.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do.

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

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.

Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.

I knew it would be hard work, but that's the reason you're an actor. If you're a bricklayer, you don't want to just show up at someone's house and put a little row of bricks around their garden. You want to build a building.

Real entertainers love to entertain.

As an actor, I love challenges.

Whenever people see me on screen, I want them to feel that I am making an effort and pushing the envelope.

I like to see things that take a lot of time and effort and passion. Which I feel like 'Skins' has.

Even if I hadn't won 'Drag Race,' even if I'd never been on, I'd still be working my tail off, creating live shows, magazines, videos, anything I possibly could!

I just love making music and entertaining. I really do live for this culture. I don't think about the other stuff.

Music is 80 percent fun and 20 percent work. Video games, for me, is all fun.

I just wanted to perform all day, every day.