My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it’s Hannah Dakota Fanning.
I really enjoy what I’m doing. I think you have to have a good time and not look too far back or too far ahead.
I think that when you’re in the public eye, you automatically become a role model, because people are reading about you and looking at pictures of stuff you’ve done. But, you know, no one’s perfect, everyone makes mistakes. I have made mistakes and I will make mistakes. I’m only human.
My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain.
I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.
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.
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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.
My job is all about getting inside another person’s mind and thoughts.
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.
I’m home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.
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 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’ve been a ballerina since I was two, but I’ve always wanted to be an actress.
I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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 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.
My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
The gunshot holds no fear!
My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that’s why I’ve been seen as mature.