Top 120 Kirsten Dunst Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Kirsten Dunst

2. “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.”

— Kirsten Dunst

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3. “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.”

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4. “I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.”

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5. “If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place.”

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6. “You know that feeling when you wake up in the morning and you’re excited for the day? That’s one of my main goals in life.”

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7. “You can never get enough of ‘Jeopardy.’”

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8. “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?’”

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9. “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.”

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10. “Everyone goes through a hard time in their life.”

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11. “I attract a different kind of boy when my hair’s red. I get more quality men – like a more thoughtful, nerdy dude.”

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12. “I’d like to be taller. I’d like my baby fat to leave.”

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13. “I feel like everyone directs their own career according to their taste, what they migrate to emotionally and what kind of artists they want to work with.”

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14. “When I’m working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.”

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15. “I’m very mature for my age, but I’m also innocent in a lot of ways.”

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16. “Everyone goes through a hard time in their life, they just don’t have to do it in front of tons of people and with our media the way it is. I did, and I’m lucky that I had the resources and the money to take care of myself. Now I love me, so I’m OK.”

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17. “I’ve seen ‘karma’ slap people in the face. You have to be good to people. It really does come around.”

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18. “I didn’t go to Cirque Lodge for alcohol abuse or drug abuse.”

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19. “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?”

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20. “You really can’t explain how you do the things you do. I can’t, anyway. I love certain actors, but sometimes they say the stupidest things about technique. I don’t want to say something stupid.”

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21. “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.”

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22. “I just want to be a good friend to people, that’s all.”

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

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

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25. “Confidence is very sexy. You could be not cute at all and have such confidence.”

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26. “The real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself.”

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27. “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.”

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28. “I’ve never been a major smoker, but I think America’s view on weed is ridiculous. I mean – are you kidding me? If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place.”

— Kirsten Dunst

29. “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.”

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30. “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.”

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31. “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.”

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32. “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.”

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33. “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.”

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

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35. “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.”

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36. “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!’”

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37. “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.”

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38. “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.”

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39. “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.”

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40. “I used to feel like I had to be the best at what I did, but I realized I don’t have to be the best. It’s so freeing. I’ve never been this happy.”

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41. “Madonna is my role model shes such a powerful woman. I love Gwenyth Paltrow, shes 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.”

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42. “You know how people say awards don’t mean anything? Hello! I think the energy around them makes everyone cuckoo.”

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43. “I liked the girly cartoons. I was very much a girly-girl.”

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44. “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.”

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45. “You don’t really know who you’re going to fall in love with at what time in their life. They can be the worst off they’ve ever been in their life, but you can’t help who you fall in love with. That’s part of the excitement of life – new people, new experiences.”

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46. “I don’t gossip about myself.”

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47. “When you have a beanpole body, everything looks cute. Like Alexa Chung. I like her style, but she’s really tall and skinny, so everything looks good on her.”

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48. “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.”

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49. “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.”

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50. “Every movie I do, I always use things that have happened in my life. Funny moments, anything. If it just sticks out I’ll write it down and use that, too, because it has to come out of you. But no one can work when they’re depressed. I don’t think I’d physically be able to do it if I were depressed.”

— Kirsten Dunst