Sometimes 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.

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.

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.

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

I can only live my life in this way. I don't think I would be living it a different way if I wasn't acting.

The world is made up of the big things and the small ones. And the part that's so unfair is that we call them 'big' and 'small' because when something happens to you, when you loose something or someone that your really care about, that's all there is. The world may be blowing up around you, but you don't care about that. You don't care about that at all.

There'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.