Elle Fanning Quotes

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.

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

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.

If people say "no" to you and it's something you really want to do, keep going and you'll succeed.

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

If I asked you, "Do you think you're beautiful?" everyone should say yes.

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.

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.

Everyone should love themselves, should think that they're beautiful.

We're constantly taking pictures of ourselves. It's a bit scary, because images are essentially dead, so we judge beauty on something that isn't alive.

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.

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

That's the main thing you have to have... trust.

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

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

I'd much rather dress like a 5 year old than a 21 year old. I'd much rather wear a puffy sleeved shirt than some low-cut top.

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

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.

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

I love fashion! I love clothes! I really like vintage clothes, so in my closet there's a lot of '50s stuff. I go to the stores and shop around.

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?

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.

I can't really remember my life without movies.

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

As my sister got older, I saw how excited she got when she got to do all of that stuff. I was always like, "One day, I'll get to do older parts." I thought that was cool.

I would love to do a musical!

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 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.

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.

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

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.

Dakota Fanning is my favorite actress.

I always look at Style.com and look at all the designers and I know all the model's names.

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

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.

I love fashion! I love clothes!

I want to write and direct a movie one day.

I remember going to the wardrobe-fitting for the first time and seeing all the cool high-waisted jeans and halter-tops - and that style is coming back anyway - so I loved that!

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 used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down.

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

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

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

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.

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.

What's the best part of a movie? I love to know what my name is. It's just so fun. That's the first thing I ask. It's just fun because you have a different name in every movie.

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