Elle Fanning Quotes

I remember the first time Dakota asked me for fashion advice about what to put with what. I was like, 'My big sister is asking me?'

I would love to do a musical!

It's fun because you can escape and learn about what other people's minds have created. It inspires you to think maybe you could come up with a creature yourself. I like that.

I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the time or always happy - I don't think it matters. If you're having bad day, show you're having a bad day. Don't try to put up something that's fake.

I like playing characters with as many emotions as possible. I'd love to play a really crazy person - someone truly out of her mind.

I would love to work with my sister in a movie one day - like play sisters or something like that, because we've never been on-screen at the same time together.

I love all vintage-everything, really. I love fashion. I've always loved it. And the fifties, I've always loved.

I like necklaces that are short, the way skateboarders used to wear them in the seventies.

I like to be very girly, with bows and ruffles on the red carpet. I love pastel colours, especially blue. Me and my sister both because of our eyes look good in blues.

I would love to go to Paris. I have to go to Paris. I would love to go there, that's like my dream.

I was always a fan of Nic. With his movie, you know it's "A Nic Refn Movie."

I'm pretty good with not being afraid to just go up to people and introduce myself.

I don't wear any make-up on normal days and at school. But, if I'm going somewhere, I always do something with my eyes - crazy colors, sparkles. I'm all for it. I love experimenting.

I like mixing things. I wear a lot of boots. Love boots. And then jeans, but I like to wear them with a really ruffly top. Or I love high-waisted anything.

I've been on 'Criminal Minds' twice! On the first show, a boy brought kids out to the woods and was beating them with a baseball bat, but I got away. Then they brought Tracy, my character, back - as a kidnapped girl. They saved me two times! Tracy lived!

I go to ballet five days a week. I would love to go to a fashion show one day, because I never have.

Paris is my favorite place in the world. I've never been there, at all ... But I wanna live there, even though I've never been.

The first time we did it [voice-over], I was trying to use my face and my eyes more so and really portray that emotion, and that didn't matter. I realized you have to bring that emotion into the way you sound, and all those different layers have to be in your voice instead of the way you are wrinkling your eyebrows or whatever. I had to learn how to do that.

I wore the Marc Jacobs dress, so I love Marc Jacobs. He has a vintage flair. But I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff, so it hasn't been a lot of designers. If I see something that I like, I just buy it.

In a funny way, I like the past, I'm a very nostalgic person.

I can't really remember my life without movies.

Everyone in my grade is turning 13, so there are bunches of bar and bat mitzvahs. They're very dressy. It's fun picking out outfits. One girl, for her bat mitzvah, wore a huge red ball gown!

I'm a normal kid, really. I just love to act.

My favorite actress is Marilyn Monroe.

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

I was 13 and a teenager, as well. When you're that age, you want to be an adult, in a way, but you don't want to have the responsibilities of an adult. You still want to have the freedom.

I feel like with every character, you try to put yourself in that person's position and just completely use your imagination. That's what I do, at least. Everything is just pretend.

I would like to continue acting. But also - if this is a dream world where everything could become true - I'd want to be a ballerina.

I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs.

I was kind of scared at first to do that [vice-over] because when you're on set, a lot of the things going on around you - the environment and playing off other actors - and that's what makes it easier and helps you to be in your character. So, realizing you're not going to have that and you're going to be secluded in this booth, it's like, "How am I going to be a character when I'm just in these walls?"

To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.

Some people do piano lessons after school; I do movies.

I always try to do something very different with each character because that's why I like to do this, because I can become someone else completely and it's fun.

I bite my nails so bad. They're awful! My nails are so ugly. I need to stop biting them.

I liked that you have to sometimes get into a situation that might not be a comfortable one - so, overcome your fear and good things will happen - if you want someone to know something, or you have to really take charge and do it yourself and go for it. With the Boxtrolls, they want people to know they're not mean guys, but they're too scared to show anyone. They have to eventually work up the courage to show that and gain the confidence.

I love fashion! I love clothes!

I was 12 when I did 'Super 8,' and when Dakota was 12, she did 'War of the Worlds.' Steven Spielberg was involved with both movies, so we both worked with Steven when we were 12.

But it's cool working with female directors because I'm a girl, so you do relate to them more. You can talk to them about other stuff like clothes and all that.

I like Jodie Foster and then Meryl Streep. They're just, like, the greatest ever.

I love the '70s, I'm very into that right now. The long Chloe dresses, very Virgin Suicides.

Dakota Fanning is my favorite actress.

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

You have to have a balance between your normal life and movies.

I think as an artist that's the best thing you can have - a personal stamp on something.

I have a sliding glass door on my closet, and when I slide it one way I can see all my uniforms, and the other way is all my own clothes.

After 'Somewhere' came out, people started to recognize me more. Whenever I was walking down the street, they'd be like, 'Oh, wow - are you Elle Fanning?' Before 'Somewhere,' they asked me if I was Dakota Fanning, because we looked alike, and I'd say, 'No, I'm her younger sister.'

For a long time, I refused to wear jeans. I liked high-waisted pants, but jeans made me feel like I wasn't being unique. Even now, I won't wear the skinny-jeans style, because most people wear those - they have to be baggier, boyfriend-looking, or sort of like a mom jean. I'm real funny that way.

I get a lot of butterflies at auditions because I get so scared. It's scary because you've never met the people before. You have to meet them, and you have to hurry up and get to know them in five seconds. And then, you have to spill your emotions out to these strangers. It's funny.

I'm only thirteen, so I have role-models! But I've sort of experienced ... my sister has always been my role-model because I've always seen her. She's been acting my whole life and she's grown up on film, so it's neat for me to get to travel around and do interviews, because I've always seen her doing it.

It's cool because, as you get older, you get offered older parts. You're older, so you can't play 10 anymore. That was always very exciting for me.