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

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

I remember when I was very little my idol was Britney Spears. I had just come to California and that's just who I wanted to meet. So I was in a store and she walked in and my jaw just fell to the floor. I started like sweating. I could not believe that I was meeting her. She told me that I was very cute. And I lost it — I was so excited.

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.

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

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

It's important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life.