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" 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.' "
Street
Me
People
" 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. "
Working
Clothes
Cool
" Dakota Fanning is my favorite actress. "
Fanning
Dakota
Favorite
" 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. "
Mom
Style
Time
" 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. "
Colors
Love
Day
" I always look at Style.com and look at all the designers and I know all the model's names. "
Model
Look
Names
" I can't really remember my life without movies. "
Life
My Life
Movies
" 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. "
Like
Year
Top
" I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz. "
Hip-Hop
Jazz
Ballet
" 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. "
You
Happy
Day
" 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. "
Love
School
Eyes
" 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. "
Clothes
See
Own
" 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. "
Just
Amazing
Describe
" I like Jodie Foster and then Meryl Streep. They're just, like, the greatest ever. "
Just
Foster
Ever
" 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. "
Boots
Jeans
Things
" I like necklaces that are short, the way skateboarders used to wear them in the seventies. "
Seventies
Wear
Like
" 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. "
Her
Mind
Love
" I like to be very girly, with bows and ruffles on the red carpet. I love pastel colours, especially blue. Me and my sister both because of our eyes look good in blues. "
Love
Eyes
Blue
" 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. "
Dancing
Acting
Always
" 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. "
Go
Fashion
Clothes
" I love the '70s, I'm very into that right now. The long Chloe dresses, very Virgin Suicides. "
Right
Dresses
Long
" 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. "
She
Sister
Fish
" 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. "
Better
Way
Movies
" I'm a normal kid, really. I just love to act. "
Act
Normal
Love
" 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. "
People
Mean
Her
" I'm pretty good with not being afraid to just go up to people and introduce myself. "
Myself
Afraid
Go
" 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?' "
Advice
Like
Sister
" I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything. "
Acting
Believe
Create
" I've been on 'Criminal Minds' twice! On the first show, a boy brought kids out to the woods and was beating them with a baseball bat, but I got away. Then they brought Tracy, my character, back - as a kidnapped girl. They saved me two times! Tracy lived! "
Woods
Baseball
Me
" 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. "
Did
Involved
She
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