Fanning: "I know how to hit a mark without looking. I instinctively know where my eye line should be. That's all 100%. But your character and the story are always different, so the emotional part is not muscle memory. You're still surprised by stuff and get the adrenaline."

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

Fanning: "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."

Fanning: "If you don't love what you are doing, it could be misery."

Fanning: "I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common."

Fanning: "I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot."

Fanning: "I definitely think independent film is very exciting, and you get to sometimes take bigger risks. So that's always a challenge and something that I look forward to."

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."

Fanning: "I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness."

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."

Fanning: "My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain."

Fanning: "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."

Fanning: "I always talk about my characters like they're real people."

Fanning: "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."

Fanning: "I'm kind of a self-aware and confident person."

Fanning: "I think you learn something from everybody that you've worked with. I really learned how to behave on set through the people that I worked with, like the importance of being on time and the importance of being professional. I don't bring my cell phone on set; I leave it in my trailer."

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."

Fanning: "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."

Fanning: "I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts."

Fanning: "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."

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."

Fanning: "It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines."

Fanning: "As much as movies are about the words that you're saying, they're also about what's not said, the silent moments."

Fanning: "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."

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."

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

Fanning: "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."

Fanning: "I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know."

Fanning: "It's rare to see women in a film who are not somehow validated by a male or discussing a male or heartbroken by a male,or end up being happy because of a male. It's interesting to think about, and it's very true."

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