If you don’t love what you are doing, it could be misery. — Dakota Fanning

Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters. — Dakota Fanning

I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I’d be Beyonce in two seconds. — Dakota Fanning

I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That’s how much I love Hello Kitty. — Dakota Fanning

I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship. — Dakota Fanning

I love the feeling I get when I’m on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else. — Dakota Fanning

Is every moment of our lives built into us before we’re born? If it is, does it make us less responsible for the things we do, or is the responsibility built in too? — Dakota Fanning

One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you’d never do in real life. — Dakota Fanning

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. — Dakota Fanning

There is a lot of negativity that you welcome into your life when you’re an actor. You bare your soul for anyone to see. — Dakota Fanning

Because I’m a pale person, I take care of my skin religiously. — Dakota Fanning

I 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 Fanning

I’m very proud to be a woman–you’re part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That’s really special. — Dakota Fanning

It’s what I love about what I do and the life that I’m able to have and be able to just be so normal one day and be here the next…I feel so lucky to be able to do what I do. — Dakota Fanning

I feel very lucky to have been able to travel and see different parts of the world. — Dakota Fanning

I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff. — Dakota Fanning

I really enjoy what I’m doing. I think you have to have a good time and not look too far back or too far ahead. — Dakota Fanning

Being a known person is pretty much all I’ve known. I don’t remember much of a time when people didn’t know who I was. — Dakota Fanning

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. — Dakota Fanning

People recognize me all the time. I think it’s really nice. I don’t mind it at all. It feels kind of surreal when people know who you are and I think that it’s really cool. — Dakota Fanning

It’s important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life. — Dakota Fanning

I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now. — Dakota Fanning

Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that’s the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all. — Dakota Fanning

I can only live my life in this way. I don’t think I would be living it a different way if I wasn’t acting. — Dakota Fanning

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 Fanning

Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I don’t think of it as work. It’s really fun for me. — Dakota Fanning