Quotes from Dakota Johnson

I love that I'm alone all the time. I love sleeping next to no one. I really don't like solitude.

L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.

I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.

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'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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Seeing a catering truck feels like home.

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.

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.

I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.

Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

I have bizarre anxiety about being in a city - I have no idea who I am or where I am.

I'm really a normal person.

I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out.

I want my outfit to match my mood.

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.