My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So its Hannah Dakota Fanning. – Dakota Fanning
Ive 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. – Dakota Fanning
My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and shes always with me on everything. The most Ive ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know. – Dakota 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. – Dakota Fanning
My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early 70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it. – Harry Connick, Jr.