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. ”

If you don't love what you are doing, it could be misery. ”

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. ”

In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience. ”

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. ”

I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, and those are cool and fun to watch, too, but I think it's so important to sometimes step back and watch something that's about life and human interaction. ”