Top 120 Kirsten Dunst Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I want to play an action hero. I’m ready for roles that totally aren’t me.”

— Kirsten Dunst

52. “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.”

— Kirsten Dunst

53. “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.”

— Kirsten Dunst

54. “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.”

— Kirsten Dunst

55. “I think that everybody in life probably goes through obstacles at different times in life. I wouldn’t really call them obstacles, I think that’s just called growing up, and I think it’s hard to be in the industry at such a young age.”

— Kirsten Dunst

56. “I feel very lucky that I don’t have to rely on a man to give me financial security. That’s a big deal.”

— Kirsten Dunst

57. “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.”

— Kirsten Dunst

58. “I love my snaggle fangs. They give me character and character is sexy.”

— Kirsten Dunst

59. “Obviously I’m a feminist. It’s ridiculous that anyone would think other of me.”

— Kirsten Dunst

60. “I feel like I could never walk around a film half-naked. I definitely wouldn’t want to see that.”

— Kirsten Dunst

61. “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.”

— Kirsten Dunst

62. “When you get older, you feel better about yourself. You’re not worried what other people think about you, in general. You just get more comfortable in your skin.”

— Kirsten Dunst

63. “Rare are the people who can capture a human being.”

— Kirsten Dunst

64. “I like people more undone than made up. Patricia Arquette is the ultimate. She’s not anorexic or perfectly tan, she’s not trying to be anything but what she is, and that’s the most sexy thing.”

— Kirsten Dunst

65. “Everybody has a mean streak in them, don’t they?”

— Kirsten Dunst

66. “When you’re in a depressed state, having something really bad happen gives you kind of a life again.”

— Kirsten Dunst

67. “I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn’t afraid of being in front of a camera.”

— Kirsten Dunst

68. “I’m never going to say anything about who I’m dating unless I’m married or engaged.”

— Kirsten Dunst

69. “When you feel good is when you’re not afraid to feel the worst.”

— Kirsten Dunst

70. “You lose like five pounds immediately, and your face is glowing and gorgeous!”

— Kirsten Dunst

71. “When you spend your entire life as a child actress, being told where to go and where to stand, you’re performing constantly for people. It definitely breeds the kind of person who’s dependent on other people’s approval.”

— Kirsten Dunst

72. “I’m the kind of person who buys a new thing, wears it so much and then is totally sick of it.”

— Kirsten Dunst

73. “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.”

— Kirsten Dunst

74. “Being an actress doesn’t make you popular in school.”

— Kirsten Dunst

75. “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.”

— Kirsten Dunst

76. “I mean look at Antichrist. He’s not making films to be liked by everyone, so why is this so surprising coming from Lars von Trier?”

— Kirsten Dunst

77. “It’s important to me that I don’t get trapped in the whole teen scene, because I feel that you can get lost in those kind of movies, and they aren’t really about the actors; they’re about the selling of the concept, and how much money it makes.”

— Kirsten Dunst

78. “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.”

— Kirsten Dunst

79. “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.”

— Kirsten Dunst

80. “I’m always looking for that movie that feels like it’s hitting me where I need it.”

— Kirsten Dunst

81. “The best scripts I read are usually pretty – they move really quickly, there’s not a lot of exposition in between all of what’s happening, so you can really just flow with the lines, and you’re reading and it has a momentum and you understand it emotionally.”

— Kirsten Dunst

82. “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.”

— Kirsten Dunst

83. “I’ve been an REM fan since I was a little girl. I would jump around to ‘Stand’ in the mirror.”

— Kirsten Dunst

84. “When you’re little, you’re open to things. It’s not like you get into this rehearsed zone when you’re a child. At first you play different sides of yourself. And I think it will be really exciting one day to have a character to go into that’s not anything like me whatsoever.”

— Kirsten Dunst

85. “I don’t think roles help you resolve your issues. I just think they’re good markers.”

— Kirsten Dunst

86. “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.”

— Kirsten Dunst

87. “I don’t find I’m manic at all. I’m very chill.”

— Kirsten Dunst

88. “I don’t want to be ‘box-office girl,’ but I don’t want to be ‘that indie girl’ either.”

— Kirsten Dunst

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

— Kirsten Dunst

90. “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.”

— Kirsten Dunst

91. “I have gotten so many tickets. I hope I don’t get my license revoked.”

— Kirsten Dunst

92. “I’m not someone who feels the pressure of someone else’s expectations. That’s a very young way to feel.”

— Kirsten Dunst

93. “I really think the key to a film is the chemistry of people.”

— Kirsten Dunst

94. “I think everyone wants for their kids the good things that they had.”

— Kirsten Dunst

95. “A lot of people my age who are working right now have never acted; they get a show and suddenly they’re making millions. It’s always those people who get it fast who have the most trouble staying grounded and being themselves.”

— Kirsten Dunst

96. “I’d like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn’t matter, but it doesn’t hurt.”

— Kirsten Dunst

97. “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.”

— Kirsten Dunst

98. “To be in someone’s favorite film is just – that’s what you want. You want to be in great films that are memorable.”

— Kirsten Dunst

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

— Kirsten Dunst

100. “It’s weird doing red carpets; it’s uncomfortable. But you can have a sense of humor about it.”

— Kirsten Dunst