Elle Fanning Quotes

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.

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.

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 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 mean, it’s amazing that I get to meet all these people. I’ve learned so much from all of them. I just worked with Sofia Coppola and that was amazing. I learned so much from her. I can’t even describe how much fun I had.

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.

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.

There’s competitiveness in everything. In any job, I’m sure. I think there’s also this stereotype that women together are catty and competitive, which is just – nobody ever talks about men being catty or competitive. I don’t think that’s fair.

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 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.

That’s the main thing you have to have… trust.