Top 60 Elle Fanning Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I bite my nails so bad. They’re awful! My nails are so ugly. I need to stop biting them.”

— Elle Fanning

2. “I would love to go to Paris. I have to go to Paris. I would love to go there, that’s like my dream.”

— Elle Fanning

3. “I love fashion! I love clothes!”

— Elle Fanning

4. “If people say “no” to you and it’s something you really want to do, keep going and you’ll succeed.”

— Elle Fanning

5. “I want to write and direct a movie one day.”

— Elle Fanning

6. “Dakota Fanning is my favorite actress.”

— Elle Fanning

7. “I’m a big fish eater. Salmon – I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I’m not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I’m beginning to like it more. I don’t like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything.”

— Elle Fanning

8. “I love all vintage-everything, really. I love fashion. I’ve always loved it. And the fifties, I’ve always loved.”

— Elle Fanning

9. “If I asked you, “Do you think you’re beautiful?” everyone should say yes.”

— Elle Fanning

10. “One boy made fun of me because one day, I had really curly hair, and I wear glasses normally, and I also bite my nails. I feel like everyone is different in their own way, so, people shouldn’t try to make them feel bad because of that.”

— Elle Fanning

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11. “I don’t think you should try to be anything you’re not. If you’re not smiling all the time or always happy – I don’t think it matters. If you’re having bad day, show you’re having a bad day. Don’t try to put up something that’s fake.”

— Elle Fanning

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

— Elle Fanning

13. “Everyone in my grade is turning 13, so there are bunches of bar and bat mitzvahs. They’re very dressy. It’s fun picking out outfits. One girl, for her bat mitzvah, wore a huge red ball gown!”

— Elle Fanning

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14. “I can’t really remember my life without movies.”

— Elle Fanning

15. “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

16. “I have a sliding glass door on my closet, and when I slide it one way I can see all my uniforms, and the other way is all my own clothes.”

— Elle Fanning

17. “For a long time, I refused to wear jeans. I liked high-waisted pants, but jeans made me feel like I wasn’t being unique. Even now, I won’t wear the skinny-jeans style, because most people wear those – they have to be baggier, boyfriend-looking, or sort of like a mom jean. I’m real funny that way.”

— Elle Fanning

18. “I always try to do something very different with each character because that’s why I like to do this, because I can become someone else completely and it’s fun.”

— Elle Fanning

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19. “I love the ’70s, I’m very into that right now. The long Chloe dresses, very Virgin Suicides.”

— Elle Fanning

20. “I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you’re part of a team and you don’t want to let your team down.”

— Elle Fanning

21. “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.”

— Elle Fanning

22. “There is also an awakening to beauty, because when you’re really young you don’t have that concept or opinion in place, so you make your own discoveries. It’s different now with technology, and the constant bombardment of images.”

— Elle Fanning

23. “To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you’ve never felt before. You’re imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.”

— Elle Fanning

24. “I was 12 when I did ‘Super 8,’ and when Dakota was 12, she did ‘War of the Worlds.’ Steven Spielberg was involved with both movies, so we both worked with Steven when we were 12.”

— Elle Fanning

25. “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.”

— Elle Fanning

26. “I feel like with every character, you try to put yourself in that person’s position and just completely use your imagination. That’s what I do, at least. Everything is just pretend.”

— Elle Fanning

27. “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

28. “I go to ballet five days a week. I would love to go to a fashion show one day, because I never have.”

— Elle Fanning

29. “As my sister got older, I saw how excited she got when she got to do all of that stuff. I was always like, “One day, I’ll get to do older parts.” I thought that was cool.”

— Elle Fanning

30. “The hardest thing that I’ll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad.”

— Elle Fanning

31. “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

32. “Some people do piano lessons after school; I do movies.”

— Elle Fanning

33. “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

34. “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.”

— Elle Fanning

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35. “I sort of make believe. That’s why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.”

— Elle Fanning

36. “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.”

— Elle Fanning

37. “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

38. “In a funny way, I like the past, I’m a very nostalgic person.”

— Elle Fanning

39. “I think as an artist that’s the best thing you can have – a personal stamp on something.”

— Elle Fanning

40. “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

41. “I like necklaces that are short, the way skateboarders used to wear them in the seventies.”

— Elle Fanning

42. “I remember going to the wardrobe-fitting for the first time and seeing all the cool high-waisted jeans and halter-tops – and that style is coming back anyway – so I loved that!”

— Elle Fanning

43. “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.”

— Elle Fanning

44. “I get very emotional about time periods I never lived in, but I have a weird connection to them. The mystery of it becomes about hearing the stories of those eras, and creating nostalgia from those stories.”

— Elle Fanning

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45. “You have to have a balance between your normal life and movies.”

— Elle Fanning

46. “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

47. “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

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

— Elle Fanning

49. “I’m a normal kid, really. I just love to act.”

— Elle Fanning

50. “I would love to work with my sister in a movie one day – like play sisters or something like that, because we’ve never been on-screen at the same time together.”

— Elle Fanning