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At the Empire State Building, I cried in line for 45 minutes because I didn't want to go up. I pulled my visor down, but I loved it once I was up there. I've never been up that high before, so I didn't really know what to expect. And then when I got up there, the view was spectacular. It was really fun.
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Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.
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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".
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ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.
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I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.
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I just feel so blessed to be able to [act], because it's unbelievable to work with these great actors that I have worked with and I have all these friends that I've made on sets that I'll have all my life. That's the best part about it.
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I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
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I'm home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies."
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I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I always played the mom and I played my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take.
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It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.
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It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time.
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It's like you can't imagine that you're sitting next to this person. I just did a movie with Denzel Washington, then one with Mike Meyers and Robert DeNiro, and you can't imagine that you're actually within range of this person. So it's kinda like, Am I sure I'm not dreaming?
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My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
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My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
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No not really, it is just like real life. Not everyday you are happy and not everyday you are sad.
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One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.
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That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.
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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.
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The lesson that I hope everyone will learn when they see the movie is that it doesn't matter what car you drive and what apartment or house you live in, or even what you look like on the outside.It just matters what your heart looks like. [It's about] your ability to love.
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To work with Robert De Niro was like a dream come true. He' s such a nice person to be around, and I learned something from him everyday.
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We became a vegetarian. But that didn't last very long, because, um, I don't like vegetables. Or salad, nothing like that!
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.

Biography

Hannah Dakota Fanning (born February 23, 1994 in Conyers, Georgia), better known simply as Dakota Fanning, is an American actress.

It is said that Fanning learned to read at age two. She rose to stardom quickly, being chosen for a Tide commercial at age five.

At the age of 8, she became the youngest person to be nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award, for her supporting performance in I Am Sam (2001). When she received the Best Young Actor/Actress award from the Broadcast Film Critics Association for her performance in I Am Sam, she was too short to reach the microphone to give her acceptance speech. Presenter Orlando Bloom held her up to the mike for the duration of her speech, which turned out to be quite long.

Dakota Fanning's sister, Elle Fanning, is a budding actress. Elle's first roles were as the younger version of Dakota's character in I Am Sam and Taken.

Dakota appeared on The Tonight Show on November 10, 2003, where she declared that she and her sister shared a room, and described co-star Mike Myers as very funny.

Following The Cat in the Hat, Dakota starred in Man On Fire with Denzel Washington, directed by Tony Scott. She played Pita, the kidnapped nine-year-old who wins over the heart of the retired assassin (Washington). She was hailed for her grounded and realistic portrayal of Pita. In early 2005, she starred alongside Robert DeNiro in Hide and Seek. The movie was slammed by critics, but as was becoming the norm, her performance was hailed as nothing short of a must-see.

The filming on Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story was completed in late October 2004, from which she then went directly to the set of War of the Worlds, where she stars alongside Tom Cruise. Again, she moved straight to another film without a break - in May 2005, she wrapped filming Charlotte's Web with Robert Redford in Australia.

Filmography

*Charlotte's Web (2006, Fern)
*'' (2005, Cale Crane)
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War of the Worlds (2005, Rachel Ferrier, alongside Tom Cruise)
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Nine Lives (2005, Maria)
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Hide and Seek (2005, Emily Callaway, alongside Robert DeNiro)
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Man on Fire (2004, Pita, alongside Denzel Washington)
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My Neighbor Totoro (2005, voice of Satsuki Kusakabe, Disney's English dub)
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The Cat in the Hat, (2003, Sally)
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Uptown Girls (2003, Lorraine "Ray" Schleine)
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Taken, (2002, mini-series, Allie Keys)
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Hansel & Gretel (2002, Katie)
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Sweet Home Alabama (2002, young Melanie)
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Trapped (2002, Abigail Jennings)
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Father Xmas (2001, Clairee)
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I Am Sam (2001, Lucy Diamond Dawson, alongside Sean Penn)
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Tomcats'' (2001)

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