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I have no problem shooting emotional scenes.

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

The barn really smelled like a barn with all the hay.

I feel so blessed to have been able to be in War of the Worlds.

You just forget it’s there, … Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story.

I had never been around horses at all. That’s why I wanted to do it.

My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.

I’m home schooled, and I have a teacher that goes with me on all my movies.

I’ve been a ballerina since I was two, but I’ve always wanted to be an actress.

That’s just somebody else’s opinion. I don’t think that’s really for me to worry about.

I was so excited because it was such an honor for me to be nominated with those great actresses.

No not really, it is just like real life. Not everyday you are happy and not everyday you are sad.

I can’t change the speed that I’m growing up at. I know what I was meant to do, and I feel at home.

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it`s Hannah Dakota Fanning.

I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.

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

I want to keep acting. I want to go to college, sure, but I really want to keep acting right now. It`s so fun.

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

I never worked with horses before, so that was a new challenge, and working with Kurt was just amazing. I couldn’t wait.

I think it’s everyones dream to win an Oscar. I’d love just to go to the Oscars and it would be fun. That would be great!

We became a vegetarian. But that didn’t last very long, because, um, I don’t like vegetables. Or salad, nothing like that!

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

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.

I would love to have a career like the one she’s had, from child actress to just actress. And she directs. And everybody knows how smart she is.

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.

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. And home-schooling works out perfectly.

I think every little girl wants a pony, … So, it’s exciting. For me, if I didn’t have a horse, I’d want to go and see another little girl who had a horse.

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.

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.

I’m a little bit embarrassed when I hear things like that. I don’t think of myself that way. When people say that, it’s really nice, but I don’t even think that’s true.

I learned that it can be very hurtful to talk about others. You know, I read a quote by Oprah Winfrey where she said, “Turn your wounds into wisdom”. It`s not nice to spread rumors.

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.

I’m so blessed in my life. I don’t want this time of my life to end, and I don’t take anything for granted. I don’t want to grow up too fast, so I’m just enjoying every minute of my life.

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.

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.

It was a script that I loved and it`s, you know, ultimately my decision because I`m playing the character, but of course my mom and my agent read everything, but it was no different then anything else.

I don’t like to get things during the year, … I like to wait for my birthday or Christmas. I may see something that I’ll say, ‘I’d really like that for my birthday.’ I like to have things to look forward to.

I think most people think that kids in the business are brats, but you don’t have to be a brat to be an actress. I just enjoy it so much that there is no time to do anything like that. And why would I want to?

Working with him, I loved every minute of it. I couldn`t wait to see him everyday. He`s one of the best actors in the world and I loved observing him. – on working with Denzel Washington on Man on Fire (2004).

I think it’s just when you’re playing the character, just kind of into your character, you’re kind of thinking and feeling what she’s thinking and feeling at the time, … So if she’s doing that, you’re doing that.

When I go on a movie set, I`m learning about movies. I learned 100 lessons a day from Steven [Spielberg]. I always think I might not have this opportunity again, so I try to cram a lot of information into my brain.

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.

I recently saw a play that I did when I was five, and it’s so funny. I played a little blue fish, and I took it so seriously! I think I loved doing it [acting] even then, and I just wanted to do the best job that I could.

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.

My parents wouldn’t allow me to get above myself – ever. They never pushed me into acting. They just want me to do whatever makes me happy. If I had chosen something else as a career, they would have been just as supportive.

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.

I’m going to be a freshman in high school in September [2007], and I think it would be irresponsible of my parents not to let me know of things that happen and to try not to get yourself in uncomfortable situations. It’s educational.

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.

I`ve been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I`ve done have been very different and all the characters I`ve done have been very different. I feel very lucky to have been able to do the movies that I`ve done.

It`s fun to know what I want to do – you know, when I grow up. I have friends who say, `Oh, maybe I`ll be an astronaut or whatever.` But it`s cool to want to do this forever. I knew from my first commercial that I wanted to be an actress.

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.

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 scr..

I think Orlando Bloom is cute. I met him at an awards show. I was actually nominated and I won that one. When I went up on stage, they didn`t have a step for me to step on at the Critics` Choice Awards so he had to hold me up. He held me for a LONG, LONG …

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.

It’s an honor even to get to be in movies and have the opportunity to work with the people that I have worked with. I worked with Denzel Washington in Mexico City, and it’s hard to believe that I’ve worked with him, and Sean Penn, and Brittany Murphy, and everybody else.

Thank you so much for including me in this year’s It List. I couldn’t believe it when I found out! I was so excited. Thank you for inviting me to the It List party in New York. I wanted to come so bad, but I was filming in Mexico City. I love reading ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY!

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.

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?

I think one of the fun things about getting older is that more roles open up for you to do. I’m excited that there are so many more stories out there. I’m looking forward to that. I love what I’m doing, and I can’t imagine doing anything else but acting. I know I want to act always.

I try and learn something knew on every movie I do. I try to better myself from everything and from everyone on the film and from my characters. I’ve been very fortunate to play all different kinds. I just try and portray the character and the themes I fell in love with in the script.

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”.

I’ve never asked for anyone’s autograph. It’s not that I’m embarrassed. It’s just like, the actors I’ve worked with have become friends, so it would be like asking a friend for their autograph, and I know them so well. When you ask someone for their autograph, it’s like you don’t know them, but I do.

Well, I have an aunt who’s disabled, so she has some of the same tendencies that Sean Penn’s character does, so I could really relate to that character, because I had grown up with someone who was mentally challenged, and that just made me want to do the film even more, so I could let my feelings out.

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.

It’s a movie, and it’s called acting. What drew me to the film was that my character shows people that you can overcome adversity in life, and it doesn’t define you. My character has so many other interests and talents that just because something terrible happened to her doesn’t mean she can’t have a great life.

When it gets to the point of attacking my mother, my agent … my teacher, who were all on the set that day, that started to make me mad. I can let other things go, but when people start to talk about my mother, like, that’s really bad in my opinion … that’s an attack, and that’s not fair. They hadn’t seen the movie.

No. What is “normal,” anyway? I don’t want to be normal. This is my childhood. I’ve been to Australia, traveled, and learned about different cultures. Some people never leave the country in their entire lifetime. My job has opened my mind up and enriched my childhood. I have friends like anyone else, and I go shopping at the mall and do everything everyone else does.

I was really excited about meeting Tom for the first time, and I remember he was coming out of all this dirt and explosions and black smoke [while filming the movie], and he walked out, and he came over, and he put his hands on my shoulders and said, “We’re making War of the Worlds, baby!” It’s a story that I will tell my children and grandchildren someday. He made me a better actress.

That’s my favorite scene, because we were all together, … Those are my favorite scenes, when we’re all there having a good time, and it was a scene that we could really have fun with and be really mean and do different things. I think it’s cool to do movies and do things that you wouldn’t be able to do in real life, and that’s a thing I wouldn’t get to do in life, so that’s what makes it fun.

I learned something different on all my movies. With Sean Penn, he taught me how to adlib. Then I learned from Denzel Washington; he’s just so focused on his work and puts his whole thoughts into it. And then Mike [Myers], he’s just so hilarious. He’s so fun to be around. Brittany [Murphy], she’s so nice to everybody, and she’s so funny, but then also she’s very dedicated to her work and just does a fantastic job.

You know, I don’t have an allowance. My mom and dad just didn’t think that I needed one, and also, they want me to do chores around the house because I want to do them, and not because, “Oh, you’re not gonna get your allowance this week if you don’t clean your room!” When my sister and I do the dishes, we pretend we’re waiters, and we’re like “Here, we have tacos!” and things like that. We do things to make things fun.

I don’t really do it intentionally. As you get older, the roles that you can do are limited, but they are also expanded at the same time. I don’t really try to make conscious decisions about it. I just try and let it happen naturally. And, as I get to certain ages, some things are right, and some things are not. I’ve been lucky to find the right things. I just hope I can continue to make movies forever. It’s what I love to do.

I really like all the parts of it, but one of my favorites is that you get to be somebody else, unlike yourself, and you get to meet new people and go to different locations. Like, I’m going to Australia, and I’d probably never do that otherwise. And with Mexico, I probably would have never gone there if I didn’t do the movie Man on Fire, and you get to meet wonderful people, and memories you’ll have for the rest of your life.

It’s what I want to do, it’s what I’ve been so lucky to have done for almost seven years now. And I am getting older. February 23 is my birthday, I’ll be 13 years old. And I will be playing different kinds of roles. I won’t be able to do the things I did when I was 6 years old when I’m 14. And that’s what I look forward to – getting to play new roles that aren’t too old for me and aren’t too young for me, that are just at the right time.