Quotes from Elle Fanning

I remember going to the wardrobe-fitting for the first time and seeing all the cool high-waisted jeans and halter-tops - and that style is coming back anyway - so I loved that!

Everyone should love themselves, should think that they're beautiful.

I don't wear any make-up on normal days and at school. But, if I'm going somewhere, I always do something with my eyes - crazy colors, sparkles. I'm all for it. I love experimenting.

I love all vintage-everything, really. I love fashion. I've always loved it. And the fifties, I've always loved.

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

That's the main thing you have to have... trust.

I love fashion! I love clothes! I really like vintage clothes, so in my closet there's a lot of '50s stuff. I go to the stores and shop around.

I like to be very girly, with bows and ruffles on the red carpet. I love pastel colours, especially blue. Me and my sister both because of our eyes look good in blues.

I would love to work with Marion Cotillard... and my sister! I've never worked with Dakota before in a movie. It'd be so cool to be on screen interacting with each other one day. It will happen, I'm just not sure when.

I love fashion! I love clothes!

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

If people say "no" to you and it's something you really want to do, keep going and you'll succeed.

I would like to continue acting. But also - if this is a dream world where everything could become true - I'd want to be a ballerina.

I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the time or always happy - I don't think it matters. If you're having bad day, show you're having a bad day. Don't try to put up something that's fake.

What's the best part of a movie? I love to know what my name is. It's just so fun. That's the first thing I ask. It's just fun because you have a different name in every movie.

I go to ballet five days a week. I would love to go to a fashion show one day, because I never have.

I would love to go to Paris. I have to go to Paris. I would love to go there, that's like my dream.

I would love to do a musical!

I like mixing things. I wear a lot of boots. Love boots. And then jeans, but I like to wear them with a really ruffly top. Or I love high-waisted anything.

After 'Somewhere' came out, people started to recognize me more. Whenever I was walking down the street, they'd be like, 'Oh, wow - are you Elle Fanning?' Before 'Somewhere,' they asked me if I was Dakota Fanning, because we looked alike, and I'd say, 'No, I'm her younger sister.'

I was 13 and a teenager, as well. When you're that age, you want to be an adult, in a way, but you don't want to have the responsibilities of an adult. You still want to have the freedom.

I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down.

I like Jodie Foster and then Meryl Streep. They're just, like, the greatest ever.

My favorite actress is Marilyn Monroe.