Dakota Johnson Quotations

Los Angeles is a really strange place. I grew up there like a normal kid, but it was not until I experienced other parts of the world that I realized how really and truly bizarre to the core it is - inside the homes of the powerful and damaged.

I have bizarre anxiety about being in a city - I have no idea who I am or where I am.

I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.

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

I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

I'd watch my parents work and think, 'Yeah, I'm going to do that.' It wasn't even a thing. It's the only thing I know how to do.

I was always taken in and out of school.

L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.

My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.

Nashville is only a couple of hours from New York, and people just move at a slower pace there - and they don't care who you are or what you do.

I've only been in long-term relationships. I've never really dated myself.

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.

Sex scenes are always a little uncomfortable at first.

It depends on the story and the filmmaker. And it depends on the character, and the heart and soul of the person that I see on the page, and if it resonates with something that I think I can summon in myself.

If it doesn't have sex scenes in it, I won't do it.

I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.

I think people, especially the press, like to pick on children of famous people and I think that's awful. Things get made up. It's so, so sad. And there's absolutely nothing you can do about it as a 16-year-old. You're like … 'Why? What did I do?'

I avoid social networks and I try to live a very normal, simple life. I love spending time and hang out with my friends any time I can. I like a very simple life.

I felt so much when I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, I felt everything. I didn't understand [myself], I was so happy yet so angry and sad. That was the point when I realized that I needed to tell stories and make characters come alive and I needed to make people cry, and make people angry, and make people happy, and make them laugh.

I love that I'm alone all the time. I love sleeping next to no one. I really don't like solitude.

I was attracted to the positive outlook on women especially exploring relationships with different people and being confident and comfortable and strong. That was the kind of thing that was appealing to me, because that's what's real, and that's honest, and it's nothing to be ashamed of. That's what single women do.

Some people will like it [Fifty Shades of Grey] and some won't. I have other movies coming up, this is not what my whole life turns around.

I think the sexiest thing is a hat. It's very sexy!

I don't think it's something you can be prepared for. I'm just going with the flow.

Being single also sucks sometimes because you're single.

I think there’s a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.

I don’t have any problem doing anything. The secret is I have no shame.

I had to be physically and emotionally naked, show both my body and soul. I felt emotionally vulnerable and physically exposed, it was a hard choice to make but I was intrigued since the beginning. I think that...the things that scare you the most are the ones you gotta do.

The secret is I have no shame.

Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

I want to hang out with my friends. I want to hang out with my family - well, I sometimes want to hang out with my family!

I want my outfit to match my mood.

I think about my dwindling anonymity, and that's really scary because a very large part of me would be perfectly happy living on a ranch in Colorado and having babies and chickens and horses - which I will do anyway.