Dakota Johnson Quotes

I did a movie where my character was obsessed with Bruce Lee, so I learned everything about Bruce Lee, read everything, watched his movies.

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• While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• 'Inside Out' - that was a really good movie. That's the first animated movie I saw since 'The Lego Movie.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
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• If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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  • You
  • Learn

• I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Work
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• I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • People
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  • Movies

• I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.

  

  Olivier Martinez
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  • Need

• In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
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  • Single

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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  • Friends
  • Personality

• When I did 'The Social Network', David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.

  

  Dakota Johnson
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  • Pretty
  • Cool

• I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
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  • Job

• What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.

  

  Irrfan Khan
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  • Explore

• I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.

  

  Abigail Breslin
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• When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
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• I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
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• I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
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• I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

  

  Sam Mendes
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• Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
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• Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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  • Loyalty

• Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with God; but, believing in Jesus, we become, through this very faith, the children of God; have God as our Father, and may come to Him for all the temporal and spiritual blessings which we need.

  

  George Muller
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• There are seven natural openings in the head and body. A lawyer is the only human being with eight. The extra one is a slot to store money in, should his bank be unable to hold all of it.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Money
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• When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well.

  

  David Hasselhoff
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• Stories about travelers coming into town and doing good have been part of our storytelling since the Bible.

  

  Dean Devlin
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  • Bible

• Shadow owes its birth to light.

  

  John Gay
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• I did a movie where my character was obsessed with Bruce Lee, so I learned everything about Bruce Lee, read everything, watched his movies.

  

  Dakota Johnson
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