When you're acting you put so much of yourself into working. As much fun as it is, it's still hard work and it's still a challenge.
Dakota FanningThe 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.
Dakota FanningI do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's something I think about.
Dakota FanningMy 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.
Dakota Fanning