Elle Fanning Quotes
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.
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In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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Women are sacred.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters I play on TV.
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I've done it all.
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I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s - the golden age of Hollywood - was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.
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I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.
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He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.
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I have crushes on women all the time.
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I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.
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You can have an amazing director and terrible script, and the film's not going to be great. But if you have the most incredible script and an okay director, you could still get a really good film.
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I have seen and heard comedians who had really funny 'stuff' but yet could not make the people laugh; then, again - I have seen others whose stuff was anything but humorous, and the audience would howl with laughter.
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'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.
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I'm trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS.
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Dakota Fanning is my favorite actress.
