Top 64 Quotes & Sayings by Dakota Johnson
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Dakota Johnson.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
I feel like everything I wear is a favorite thing. I wouldn't wear something if I didn't love it, and I wouldn't just wear something because someone put me in it.
I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out.
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.
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.
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 was always taken in and out of school.
I went through a phase where I loved tattoos, and I loved the feeling of getting tattooed.
I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
Gena Rowlands is my all-time love. Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer. I grew up watching their work; they are extraordinary.
I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.
Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.
A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
I like a sort of androgynous look, but I also love feminine shapes.
I have bizarre anxiety about being in a city - I have no idea who I am or where I am.
I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've created a complex about it. I'm missing out on what everybody's watching, and now I can't even begin to think about starting to watch a television show because it's been so long. I don't even have a Netflix account.
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 hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.
I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.
I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.
I've only been in long-term relationships. I've never really dated myself.
I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
The secret is I have no shame.
I want my outfit to match my mood.
When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.
Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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.
I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
When I think about filmmakers and actresses that I have admired my whole life, I've admired their entire body of work.
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 grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They're all artists; they're creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I'm not impressed with Hollywood.
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.
The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.
I'm so happy when I'm working.
Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
I love clothes so much. I feel like whatever I wear is an insight for other people to get to see who I am, or for me to portray how I'm feeling.
I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.
I'm really a normal person.
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 travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it's such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.
My most favorite thing about London is that nobody recognizes me. It's really... cool.
It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.
L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
There are some days when I can do my thing and be in the world and walk around, and it's fine. And then there are other days where it's totally not fine, and I want to crawl into a hole and die. And it's the most invasive and worst.
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.
I think there’s a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.
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 don’t have any problem doing anything. The secret is I have no shame.
Being single also sucks sometimes because you're single.
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 think the sexiest thing is a hat. It's very sexy!
It seems like the world is so fast to move its interest to someone else. When I think about filmmakers and actresses that I have admired my whole life, I've admired their entire body of work. I have admired what they began with and what they're doing now. And now I feel like there's such a weird pressure to find the new face. I don't get it at all. I want to see women evolve. I want to see a body of work. I want to see all of it.
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.
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 don't think it's something you can be prepared for. I'm just going with the flow.
I still feel like I don't know what I'm doing. Like, I'm unsure of what my life will be like. I mean, I have such an obsession with making movies that I probably will always do that. But sometimes my life can feel so suffocating, and then it can feel so massive, like I don't have a handle on it at all, and I don't know where it's going or what I'm going to do. Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
If it doesn't have sex scenes in it, I won't do it.
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