"I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up."

"I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone."

"I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim."

"I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it."

"In actual life I am a grumpy old bag."

"Right, I breast feed baby camels in my backyard just for the freaking fun of it. Just tell me where you live, Pinocchio, and save the baloney for lunch."

"The landscape is best described as 'pedestrian hostile.' It's pointless to try to take a walk, so I generally just stay in the room and think about shooting myself in the head."

"My feet are completely flat, but for most of my life they were still shaped like feet. Now, thanks to bunions, they're shaped more like states, wide boring ones that nobody wants to drive through."

"I didn't know about the rest of the class, but when Bastille Day eventually rolled around, I planned to stay home and clean my oven."

"What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was damned if I could find it."

"I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself."

"On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind."

"Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation"

"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."

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

"Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same."

"Unlike me, a lot of child actors are very short, which is why they work. So when they're 15 they can play 11 or when they're 18 they can play 14. They look young for so long, they have abilities a much younger kid wouldn't have."

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'. Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night."

"For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die."

"We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself."

"He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them."

"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."

"This preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection."

"This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest."