Kirsten Dunst Quotations

You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.

Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.

But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

I wanted to get an angel wings tatooed on my back, as a guardian thing.

The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.

Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone who makes you cry?

Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.

I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.

I'd like to be taller. I'd like my baby fat to leave.

I have gotten so many tickets. I hope I don't get my license revoked.

I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.

I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me.

People always tell me, 'Don't work so much', but I can't help it. I feel like all the things I've done are important to get to this adult stage and now I'm getting all these adult offers, so it's working.

I try not to do scenes a certain way, because then I become conscious of it, and it dosen't come off as realistic. I try to make it so that I'm not really aware of what I'm doing.

There are a lot of charismatic people in this industry ... and I can understand why people on location get together.

Madonna is my role model she's such a powerful woman. I love Gwenyth Paltrow, she's an actress I aspire to be like. And, of course, my mom. She drove me from New Jersey to New York every day for commercials so I could get where I am today.

She is honest and upfront to a fault. She doesn't have a lot of fear. She's dorky and doesn't care, and in that way she's cool.

May favorite food at the moment is Pasta, "with tons of shaved Parmesan on the side. Not crumbly but like the hunks, you know what I mean...when you get the thin slices.

Nobody has wanted all of me as much as she has, ... She lets things happen. She lets mistakes happen.

On the making of hit movie Spiderman: They put me in this big harness. It was really unflattering to the figure.

Her words are like the music of a song. No wonder this guy falls for her.

I was comfortable with the words, ... Most times I find myself trying to rewrite parts of my character, but not this time.

My mom raised me so wonderfully. She gave me self esteem and made me appreciate my flaws, as well as my strengths.

My mom lived a much different airline experience, ... She was working Lufthansa in first class. So it was about passing out the caviar. Claire in this movie was a little bit more blue collar. But the one thing I did figure out is that Claire imagines her life as being as glamorous as my mom's airline life was many years ago.

I was excited to do a movie like this because the part is done for you. It's a beautifully-written character. A lot of times you're making it up as you go.

Tobey can cry just like that. Whenever I have a crying scene, I have to listen to sad music, put my headphones on and kind of zone out.

We spent a month on that scene and it goes by in a minute.

They're the ones who saw 'Titanic' eight times, ... Those are the people who keep paying, and like, there really isn't other things for teen-agers to do -- especially when you live in certain places. There's the movie theater, there's the mall, and that's pretty much it.

It wasn't painful -- let's put it that way -- but it's not the way I'd choose to make out with somebody.

It was funny, during the making of this movie I was really sad because you're not getting anything back and you're giving so much to so many other people. I feel like that's the way Claire was. She spends a lot of time on other people, giving people advice and learning about people; and she doesn't really take care of herself in that way.

It was horrible, I hated it. Brad and Tom were like my big brothers on the set, so it was like kissing your big brother - totally gross.

I love my kitties, they are like my babies - I talk to them on the phone. I am like, 'Hi Mom,' she's like, 'Hi'...I am like, 'Put me on with the cats,'" she laughs. "I'm like, 'hi baby, how's my little girl?'

I can't believe people buy into it because we have a movie coming out. I don't really care.

And sometimes, you need your knight in shining armour,

I don't try to be sexy, but if you are sexy it comes out. If you're not, you're not.

When I go away to do a movie, I bring the blanket I've had since I was a little girl. It helps me sleep. I also always bring my laptop so I can E-mail friends. And I bring my dog, Beauty, wherever I can.

I was a big Guns N' Roses fan when I was seven. My friend who lived across the street had long dark curly hair and I had long blonde hair, so I'd dress up as Axl and she'd be Slash, and we'd rock out in front of the mirror singing 'Patience.'

I think the best thing about my job is that I have my life documented, which not many people get to have. They have a photo here and there and maybe some video footage from a birthday. My kids will be able to see me growing up.

When I'm an old lady, I'm going to have my pick of the young men. They'll be like, 'She's Miss Mary Jane!' The young boys will think I'm a hot old lady.

I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do a film in German. I'm not quite fluent, but I can get there. And my accent's pretty good. I wouldn't feel too out of my element.

I know kids are supposed to go through these awkward stages, but I just never even thought about that. I was too busy worrying about getting my education while I was working.

I don't really relate to myself as The Girl in the Magazine. Which is dangerous for me, too, sometimes, because I don't think all the time, 'Well, look to see if people are following me home.' Sometimes I'm a little bit more free than maybe I should be.

I can't imagine having a real personal thing, like divorce and marriage, all those things, being in the public eye. I try to not talk about anything personal, and then nobody has the fire to throw back at you, like 'You said this back then!'

Doing 'All Good Things' really felt like I was acting for myself rather than anyone else. It gave me a freedom I'd never had before, or knew I had, to do whatever I want to, and to argue my opinions and not just feel like the cute girl on set or the girl in a boy's club. I figured out how I could be both. And it's been different ever since.

I was a very extrovert kid. It felt normal to me to act. I always went to regular schools. I've never been catty or a prima donna, so I never had problems. I always had my seat at the cafeteria when I came back from acting.

I would love to work with Quentin Tarantino - he's my number one. My ultimate. I would love to work with Paul Thomas Anderson, Alexander Payne - Pedro Almodovar wouldn't be too shabby. There are so many good directors, but those are some of my favorites.

I'm a person who likes to hang out. I would never go on a blind date. That sounds like the most uncomfortable thing on the planet earth. It's like, 'Hi. Nice to meet you. So, what kind of music do you like?' Date ended.

The performances that I love are ones like Gena Rowlands in 'A Woman Under the Influence,' where women are allowed to be messy and imperfect. It's that kind of woman that has always inspired me to seek roles that are a little out of the box. I just haven't always had the opportunity to do them.

On every film I do, whenever there are other girls my age, I think it's definitely up to me to set the pace. That's because I've had a lot of experience, and I think there's always a certain amount of professionalism that should be maintained. If I was catty or whatever, it would just make the whole shoot unpleasant. And what's the point of that?

I've always had a process that I do before I even get to set or go to the location. I work privately, and it almost feels like therapy between me and who I'm playing. So I have this inner life that's there and it gives me a confidence, too, that when I'm playing the role I know every question.

When I have time off, my friends and I will go to Universal Studios, the movies, out to eat, and shopping. I'm happiest when I'm just hanging out with my friends... it really doesn't matter what we do.

In high school I had a boyfriend who was super into rap, so I was into Too $hort and Wu-Tang for a little while. And my best friend's older brother would sometimes drive us home in this pimped-out truck, and he'd play all his dirty rap music. We thought we were really cool.

It's nice when the movie is not on your shoulders, too. It's fun to do a smaller part sometimes.

If you're successful at a young age, no matter the profession, there has to come a time when you reevaluate everything, what it means to you. 'Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life?'

If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.

I've been lucky to find people who want to work with me, whom I respect and like, but the truth is there aren't that many good projects out there. And we make way, way too many movies. So it's not always going to happen with every project. But I try and wait it out.

I don't really want to talk about my personal experience. It's something that I have talked about just because it came out in the press but I've tried to navigate the waters in my own comfort-ability.

When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my brother, and my best friends in it. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. It was like make-believe to me.

A lot of people my age, they grew up with me onscreen. I think that's helped keep a certain amount of longevity. When you grow up with a person, you feel like you know them.

A lot of moms give their kids line reads. My mom wasn't put in that position because I always had an acting teacher helping with the feelings rather than how to say something.

I get to do all these crazy things in the movies. I'm a pretty chilled out person, actually... a very mellow person.

It's always nice when people appreciate your work because it means you've affected them, which is great. And so that feels good.

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

I don't gossip about myself.

I think for everyone it's good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start rehearsing, to have an inner life.

I just want to be a good friend to people, that's all.

It's interesting to watch people go through it in something like this. I mean, what other [then Melancholia] films do they portray depression in?

I hate red-carpet photographs!

I don't live in the spotlight, and I don't live my life in front of the paparazzi. I live very comfortably and quietly as possible.

I don't find I'm manic at all. I'm very chill.

Everybody has a mean streak in them, don't they?

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

I would have loved to have been in a Hitchcock movie.

I'm a good assistant. That's why I don't have an assistant, because I'm so on it that no one can be as on it as me. I know that.

For me, my favourite actresses are like Charlotte Rampling or Gena Rowlands... people who have always stepped outside of the restraints of a certain type of woman or story. I always like those movies the best.

When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.

My mother told me that when I was born a wave of feeling came over her. She just knew that I was destined to be an actress.

My grandmother lives with my mother in a gorgeous house in the San Fernando Valley. I am afforded these luxuries, and I'm very young.

I'm not someone who is scared of doing things out of the box.

Most people ask me questions based on a previous interview. That's not an interview. It's like they're just saying my quotes back to me.

It's weird doing red carpets; it's uncomfortable. But you can have a sense of humor about it.

I've never had a teenage rebellion; I'm not that type of person. I always work out my problems in a conscientious way.

I get along really well with Lars [von Trier] but definitely during our first meetings I was feeling him out and he definitely says some things that are inappropriate and then you kind of get his sense of humour. I really enjoy him. He's one of my favourite people I've met now. So, he's pretty great.

I've been an REM fan since I was a little girl. I would jump around to 'Stand' in the mirror.

I'm not a very 'this is planned out' person when I get to set. 'This is how I'm going to do it' - I'm never like that.

I'm never going to say anything about who I'm dating unless I'm married or engaged.

I think you either get along with Lars [von Trier] or you really don't and I really got along with him. I wasn't scared because I talked to Bryce Dallas Howard about Lars.

I'm always looking for that movie that feels like it's hitting me where I need it.

What are you going to do if it's the end of the world? You better go out having fun instead of stressing about it.

So many teen films are overproduced and people are going to burnout on the subject.

I am sure I would love to do it now, but back then, I was, like, 11 and it was 'ugh.' There's nothing sexual or sexy when you're that age. So I was kissing Brad Pitt. So what? He had chapped lips. He was lovely and kind and sweet to me, but it was just yuk.

My mom raise me so wonderfully. She gave me self esteem and made me appreciate my flaws, as well as my strengths.

I think vegetarians - for a lot of them - it's about a lack of commitment to life and relationships. There are some who just like the fact that they're controlling something in their life.

You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'

I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.

Charlotte Rampling is someone I've wanted to work with for a very long time. I've always looked up to her as an actress and it's a reason why I feel brave to do a film like Melancholia. So, to me she's the ultimate.

When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.