I’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded.
DAKOTA FANNINGI’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded.
DAKOTA FANNINGI played the young Reese Witherspoon in ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10.
DAKOTA FANNINGPeople are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. Some people have something in their disposition. Maybe they were born too mean, or maybe they were born too tender.
DAKOTA FANNINGI 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.
DAKOTA FANNINGSometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that’s the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all.
DAKOTA FANNINGMy favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
DAKOTA FANNINGPeople like to examine the things that frighten them, to look at them and give them names, so saints look for god, and scientists look for evidence. They’re both just trying to take away from the mystery, to take away from the fear.
DAKOTA FANNINGI learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.
DAKOTA FANNINGDon’t touch your brows. I’ve never done anything to my eyebrows.
DAKOTA FANNINGMy dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it’s Hannah Dakota Fanning.
DAKOTA FANNINGOne of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you’d never do in real life.
DAKOTA FANNINGI 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.
DAKOTA FANNINGI 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.
DAKOTA FANNINGDear 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.
DAKOTA FANNINGThere’s just something you can relate to immediately, even without knowing a woman. It’s an inherent thing, an inherent connection. I’m really appreciating it and valuing that.
DAKOTA FANNINGActing 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.
DAKOTA FANNING