I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.

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

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'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded.

With all of the characters I've played, I feel like I've tried to communicate through my eyes and face, as much or more than with words. That's something that I like to watch in films, and something that I like to bring to the characters that I play.

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.

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