Dakota Fanning Quotes

ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.

I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

It's important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life.

I do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's something I think about.

I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

My job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.

I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.

I really enjoy what I'm doing. I think you have to have a good time and not look too far back or too far ahead.

It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about.

It can be easy to get caught up in craziness or insecurity.

People recognize me all the time. I think it's really nice. I don't mind it at all. It feels kind of surreal when people know who you are and I think that it's really cool.

My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.

I never skimp on TV. I watch an embarrassing amount of TV shows. I don't even know how I do it.

The gunshot holds no fear!

I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.

I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded.

My advice would be to go with the "love who you are, embrace yourself" vibe that's happening right now.

My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.

It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time.

Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.

My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.

It's what I love about what I do and the life that I'm able to have and be able to just be so normal one day and be here the next...I feel so lucky to be able to do what I do.

Dear God, I do not ask for health or wealth. People ask you so often that you can't have any left. Give me, God, what else you have. Give me what no-one else asks for. Amen.

There's just something you can relate to immediately, even without knowing a woman. It's an inherent thing, an inherent connection. I'm really appreciating it and valuing that.

You can't lose yourself.

My weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.

Don't touch your brows. I've never done anything to my eyebrows.

One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.

You have to be totally one hundred per cent committed to act. I do value everyone else's advice, but ultimately I have to listen to myself.

Every day, we communicate more with our energy, body language, face and eyes. That really is what communication is, and not so much words. And it's rare that you get to explore that in a film.

I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

I feel very lucky to have been able to travel and see different parts of the world.

I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.

I can only live my life in this way. I don't think I would be living it a different way if I wasn't acting.

I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.

Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all.

I played the young Reese Witherspoon in 'Sweet Home Alabama' when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10.

That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.

You have to stay true to your true friends and your family.

If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.

I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.

When you're acting you put so much of yourself into working. As much fun as it is, it's still hard work and it's still a challenge.

I always talk about my characters like they're real people.

Is every moment of our lives built into us before we're born? If it is, does it make us less responsible for the things we do, or is the responsibility built in too?

Well, we became a vegetarian. But that didn't last very long, because, um, I don't like vegetables. Or salad, nothing like that!

I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.