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.

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

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.

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

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.

My job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

My friends are the friends I've had forever, that's kept me very sane.