Dakota Fanning Quotes (43 Quotes)

Even making dark movies when the scenes are over, I'm done. I don't stay in character or take it home. I go in and out of character and then have fun on the set.

That's just somebody else's opinion. I don't think that's really for me to worry about.

The lesson that I hope everyone will learn when they see the movie is that it doesn't matter what car you drive and what apartment or house you live in, or even what you look like on the outside. It just matters what your heart looks like. It's about your ability to love.

I think it's just when you're playing the character, just kind of into your character, you're kind of thinking and feeling what she's thinking and feeling at the time, ... So if she's doing that, you're doing that.

My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

I would love to have a career like the one she's had, from child actress to just actress. And she directs. And everybody knows how smart she is.

Dakota took Kurt to see 'Napoleon Dynamite,' because she wouldn't stop talking about 'Napoleon Dynamite,' and she was making Kurt laugh,

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

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.

The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.

I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I always played the mom and I played my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

To work with Robert De Niro was like a dream come true. He' s such a nice person to be around, and I learned something from him everyday.

I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.

I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.

I'm a normal kid, really. I just love to act.

Every time she does a movie, I'm on another one. So we never really talk about work.

She's one of the best actresses I've ever met, and she's just going to get better, ... She's going to be like Bette Davis, and she's a real little girl, too. She's not like a little robot who can do all that stuff.

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.

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

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

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.

Kurt says it's an adult family movie, that's what he calls it, ... He says that adults will really enjoy it and kids will really enjoy it at the same time and that all ages can see it, and I think all ages will get a different message from it, and I'm really proud of it.

At 11, Fanning has been a professional actress for more than five years. She says that her mom first recognized her talent and took her out to Hollywood. In Georgia where I'm from, I used to play around the house, pretending to be different things. My mom saw that and took me to this playhouse where you stage a play and you play at the end of the week ... Then I got two commercials in two weeks, so I went to California for pilot season and we never looked back.

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

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

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

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

Doing the movies and meeting the people, and I like the stories of the movies. I like names a lot, too. When I do an audition, there is a script and it has a first page that has the names of all the characters. I'm like, Let me see that real quick, I wanna see what my name is gonna be.

I feel so bad for all those people. It's a terrible time for them.

I never worked with horses before, so that was a new challenge, and working with Kurt was just amazing. I couldn't wait.

It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.

In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take.

No not really, it is just like real life. Not everyday you are happy and not everyday you are sad.

She just goes and does her movies, ... She just finished one with Brad Pitt. She didn't actually get to meet him. She wasn't in any scenes with him. But she was in the same movie.

I don't like to get things during the year, ... I like to wait for my birthday or Christmas. I may see something that I'll say, 'I'd really like that for my birthday.' I like to have things to look forward to.

We really didn't talk about it. We did all kinds of things together, but we didn't talk about acting or career advice. We just became best friends.

I just feel so blessed to be able to act, because it's unbelievable to work with these great actors that I have worked with and I have all these friends that I've made on sets that I'll have all my life. That's the best part about it.

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.

That's my favorite scene, because we were all together, ... Those are my favorite scenes, when we're all there having a good time, and it was a scene that we could really have fun with and be really mean and do different things. I think it's cool to do movies and do things that you wouldn't be able to do in real life, and that's a thing I wouldn't get to do in life, so that's what makes it fun.

I was so excited because it was such an honor for me to be nominated with those great actresses.

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

I think every little girl wants a pony, ... So, it's exciting. For me, if I didn't have a horse, I'd want to go and see another little girl who had a horse.

My Best Friend's Wedding.