291 Quotes by Kirsten Dunst

I would love to play Marlene Dietrich in a movie. My dad’s from Germany and so I feel like that would be a really interesting person to play.

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

I’ve learned to do a movie and then not be in that place for a long time.

I can’t wait to have kids one day. I want to have kids and a farm with lots of animals on a lake.

If I saw ‘Virgin Suicides’ or ‘Eternal Sunshine,’ I’m so proud to be in those movies. They are such great movies. I felt so free on those sets.

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.

It’s such a private thing – ‘my process’ – I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

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.

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.