Quotes from Dakota Fanning

I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.

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

When I'm working, even though it's sometimes challenging and difficult, there's still no place I would rather be.

I know how to hit a mark without looking. I instinctively know where my eye line should be. That's all 100%. But your character and the story are always different, so the emotional part is not muscle memory. You're still surprised by stuff and get the adrenaline.

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

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.

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.

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

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

When people say hello to me, I feel like maybe I know them from somewhere, because they say, like, 'Hi! How are you?' And I'm like, 'Oh, hi!' And then I realize, 'Oh, no, they just think they know me because they watched me in a movie.' Which is cool, but definitely not a normal thing.

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.

We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.

Each role that I've played has had a piece of a dream role in it.

I'm kind of a self-aware and confident person.

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.

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

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.

I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.

I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.

There is a lot of negativity that you welcome into your life when you're an actor. You bare your soul for anyone to see.

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

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 don't know whether it's audiences or filmmakers who want characters to be likable today, but I don't think actors are afraid of their characters being unlikable.