On the fun parts of showbiz Elle Fanning: What's the best part of a movie? I love to know what my name is. It's just so fun. That's the first thing I ask. It's just fun because you have a different name in every movie.
(On learning her lines) Elle Fanning: I just remember them. We do all the scenes that I'm in, and then we're done.
Elle Fanning:Jon is cute and nice. Kim is so pretty and so fun to be with. She gave me a bracelet. Jeff is wonderful, he gave me a book for my birthday with blank pages so we could color in it...
Elle Fanning:[Eddie Murphy] did that, and he runned after Shane and like "Come back here! What's your name? What's your name(On the funniest moment while filming Daddy Day Care).
Elle Fanning: We were asleep one night, and Flounder was in his fishbowl. He flipped out of the bowl and died.(On the loss of her dear goldfish, Flounder).
Elle Fanning:I'm a normal kid, really. I just love to act.
Elle Fanning: I love it. I just love how you get to be different people and have different names.[on acting]
Elle: I'm glad they picked me to be Ruth.
Elle: Dakota Fanning is my favorite actress.
Steve Fanning, Elle's dad, was a professional sports player before he had children. Perhaps Elle's love of soccer is genetic.
Mary Elle Fanning was born on the 9th of April 1998 in Conyers.
To celebrate her seventh birthday, she went with her family to see Cirque du Soleil perform "Quid am" during its run in Melbourne, Australia.
As a child, Elle used to play the role of newborn in her big sister Dakota's roleplays.
Her parents' names are Joy and Steve.
Elle was Marilyn Monroe for Halloween.
Elle's whole name is Mary Elle Fanning.
Elle was the voice of Mei in the film Tonari no Totoro.
Elle played the role of Debbie in the film Babel.
Elle played the role of Ruth Cole in the film The Door in the Floor.
During the filming of a dramatic scene in The Door in the Floor, Elle's distraught performance was so realistic that she panicked her onscreen father, Jeff Bridges. She screamed, cried, and hit him, then after the take laughed and ran off to play with her toys.
Casting notes for the role of young Ruth Cole in Door in the Floor originally called for identical twins, believing the workload of the character to be too much for one little girl to take. The fact that our Elle was eventually cast is a credit to her acting ability.
Elle was born in Conyers, Georgia, so she has a slightly Southern accent that sometimes emerges as she speaks
When she attended her first Hollywood premiere, Elle was only three and a half years old.
Elle and her older sister Dakota are afraid of thunderstorms and lightning
She was in Because Of Winn Dixie with Anna Sophia Robb. Elle played the role of Sweetie Pie Thomas.
The first movie Elle starred in without Dakota was Daddy Day Care Elle played the role of Jamie.