My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not to MPs bailing out, but because of the death rate.
It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
'Friends' was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a master's degree in comedy.
Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.
My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.
In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps back.
But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it.
I came all this way for a reason. Today is the day of salvation. Trust Jesus to save you. Then be sincere as God knows a pretender.
On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.
On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.
I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.
A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.
I didn't come to Christianity for money, I came to Christianity because this is the way we can live a better life.
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
For most of my life, I have received messages - images and worded communications, sometimes even in an ancient language - that came to me from above.
I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
If my kid came to me and said 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'Son, I love you.'
