You have to have a balance between your normal life and movies. Elle Fanning More Quotes by Elle Fanning More Quotes From Elle Fanning I don't wear any make-up on normal days and at school. But, if I'm going somewhere, I always do something with my eyes - crazy colors, sparkles. I'm all for it. I love experimenting. Elle Fanning crazy eye school When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs. Elle Fanning family dog baby I was 13 and a teenager, as well. When you're that age, you want to be an adult, in a way, but you don't want to have the responsibilities of an adult. You still want to have the freedom. Elle Fanning teenager adults responsibility I bite my nails so bad. They're awful! My nails are so ugly. I need to stop biting them. Elle Fanning ugly nails needs I can't really remember my life without movies... [Growing up in Hollywood] is no different really. I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do. Elle Fanning growing-up play kids I always wanted to be a part of Nicolas Winding Refn world, but knew he would never make a movie that has a teenage girl as a lead. Obviously not. Then I heard he was and it was in the fashion world. What? Just combining what we think of [with Refn] - masculinity and violence - in his films with that world was so interesting to me. Elle Fanning teenage fashion girl I like playing characters with as many emotions as possible. I'd love to play a really crazy person - someone truly out of her mind. Elle Fanning crazy play character In a funny way, I like the past, I'm a very nostalgic person. Elle Fanning nostalgic way past I was kind of scared at first to do that [vice-over] because when you're on set, a lot of the things going on around you - the environment and playing off other actors - and that's what makes it easier and helps you to be in your character. So, realizing you're not going to have that and you're going to be secluded in this booth, it's like, "How am I going to be a character when I'm just in these walls?" Elle Fanning wall character firsts I remember the first time Dakota asked me for fashion advice about what to put with what. I was like, My big sister is asking me? Elle Fanning big-sister fashion advice For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that - maybe I'll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want. Elle Fanning baby love school I'd much rather dress like a 5 year old than a 21 year old. I'd much rather wear a puffy sleeved shirt than some low-cut top. Elle Fanning cutting dresses years I'm only thirteen, so I have role-models! But I've sort of experienced... my sister has always been my role-model because I've always seen her. She's been acting my whole life and she's grown up on film, so it's neat for me to get to travel around and do interviews, because I've always seen her doing it. Elle Fanning role-models roles acting I get a lot of butterflies at auditions because I get so scared. It's scary because you've never met the people before. You have to meet them, and you have to hurry up and get to know them in five seconds. And then, you have to spill your emotions out to these strangers. It's funny. Elle Fanning butterfly scary people I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or maybe, like, designer, like sketching designs. Elle Fanning design singing dancing I love all vintage-everything, really. I love fashion. I've always loved it. And the fifties, I've always loved. Elle Fanning i-love-fashion vintage fashion It's cool because, as you get older, you get offered older parts. You're older, so you can't play 10 anymore. That was always very exciting for me. Elle Fanning exciting play In a funny way, acting, to me, is all make-believe, even if the film has unicorns in it or is a normal movie that can be set in real-life time. I'm still imagining that I'm a different character, so it's all, in a funny way, like fantasy. Elle Fanning real character believe After 'Somewhere' came out, people started to recognize me more. Whenever I was walking down the street, they'd be like, 'Oh, wow - are you Elle Fanning?' Before 'Somewhere,' they asked me if I was Dakota Fanning, because we looked alike, and I'd say, 'No, I'm her younger sister. Elle Fanning younger-sister wow people I'm a normal kid, really. I just love to act. Elle Fanning normal kids
