Actress Quotes

I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.

I really love comedy and weirdly enough, I love how my journey has ended up. I get to laugh all day long.

I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.

I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.

I know a lot of actors talk about the importance of wardrobe, and it always seems like it's kind of a cop-out, maybe, because it seems like a minor detail to some people. But I think it's hugely important.

I feel really grateful that I am in comedy, and I love doing it.

I don't really like to go out to clubs or anything. It's just not my style. I'd much rather go to a dive bar or a local place.

Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.

Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband.

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

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

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

I wore the Marc Jacobs dress, so I love Marc Jacobs. He has a vintage flair. But I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff, so it hasn't been a lot of designers. If I see something that I like, I just buy it.

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 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 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.

Dakota Fanning is my favorite actress.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.