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

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

My advice would be to go with the "love who you are, embrace yourself" vibe that's happening right now.

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.

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

Doing the movies and meeting the people, and I like the stories of the movies. I like names a lot, too. When I do an audition, there is a script and it has a first page that has the names of all the characters. I'm like, “Let me see that real quick, I wanna see what my name is gonna be.

The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.