Dakota Fanning Quotes on Movies (15 Quotes)

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.