Quotes from Dakota Fanning

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

In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.

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.

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.

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

I've been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I've done have been very different, and all the characters I've done have been very different. I feel very lucky to have been able to do the movies that I've done.

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

Being a known person is pretty much all I've known. I don't remember much of a time when people didn't know who I was.

It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.

It's rare to see women in a film who are not somehow validated by a male or discussing a male or heartbroken by a male,or end up being happy because of a male. It's interesting to think about, and it's very true.

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.

Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.

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

If you don't love what you are doing, it could be misery.

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.

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

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.

I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!

I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, and those are cool and fun to watch, too, but I think it's so important to sometimes step back and watch something that's about life and human interaction.

I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.

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 find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.

I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.