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"I loved the script, too, and I just loved Phoebe. I thought that she was just funky and weird -- but in a good way, a good way weird. And I just thought that she was so fun, so I just loved everything about it."
(On why she wanted to be a part of Phoebe in Wonderland, age 9)

"Well, me and Daniel went and met with some kids that had Tourette's and we asked them questions about how they felt having it. And they said they were on medication, but it didn't really work that much. It made them cry for no reason, and so it doesn't really work. They really wanted to be normal ... I mean, I could be friends with them. I'd be friends with them any day."
(On researching her part in Phoebe in Wonderland, age 9)

"They didn't really give me any advice on the set, and they probably don't know that they gave me this advice, but they're just such nice people. I just learned to be nice like them so that was it for me."
(On Felicity Huffman and Patricia Clarkson, age 9)

"Yeah, I sort of am a little bit like Phoebe in a way because she can be a lot of fun sometimes, but she can be sort of angry because she doesn't want to do everything that she does, but she just has to in a way."
(On whether she's like her Phoebe in Wonderland character, age 9)

"My sister! Dakota, yeah."
(On who she patterns her acting after, age 9)

"Oh well I think she's just really imaginative, and she's really creative and uhm.. she's just very artistic in a way. So I just think she's.. I want to be like Phoebe! I think everyone should be more like Phoebe"
(On how her character in Phoebe in Wonderland deals with her issues, age 9)

"[She's] spunky and weird, weird in a good way."
(On her character in Phoebe in Wonderland, age 9)

"We're just normal sisters. We both go to school and we just play together."
(On her relationship with Dakota, age 9)

"I was just more quieter, then after the scene ... I was all energized up. After being quiet all day, I was just laughing and more normal."
(On her preparation for an emotional scene in Phoebe in Wonderland, age 9)

"See the opening of my movie!"
(On what she plans to do at Sundance, age 9)

"I think it's a really, really great thing to do."
(On supporting Picabo's Ski Challenge charity event, age 9)

"I love Picabo."
(On the her ski instructor at the Sundance Film Festival, age 9)

"Charlie. He's the prince and at the end when I wake up from my dream he's the shy boy. But he's actually the prince, but he's a boy that's Uncle Albert's nephew I think. So then we all go ice skating, me and Charlie in the end."
(On the her Co-star in Nutcracker: The Untold Story, age 9)

"I dream the whole adverture that, everything. I dream this! But it's very dark, and it's light. "
(On the her role in Nutcracker: The Untold Story, age 9)

"Every Christmas in every school, they always put on the Nutcracker Ballet, always. Every, every single Christmas so it's really big."
(On The Nutcracker ballet, age 9)

"I was so excited. I had played piano, but then I stopped. When this movie came along with my character playing piano, I started up again and now I want to keep doing it."
(On playing the piano in Reservation Road, age 9)

"[The Learner Family is] trying to get back on their feet again, and trying to heal. I learned a lot from Joaquin and Jennifer; I would get into my mood and my character and do it as real as possible. Terry always knew exactly what he wanted, but he would let you put your word into it too."
(On her experience filming Reservation Road, age 9)

"I play Noelle.. and I can't speak, so I do sign language throughout.. my part."
(On her character in The Nines, age 8)

"Just working. I feel weird when I'm not."
(On her favorite thing about shooting a movie, age 8)

"Really fun. I get to see, you know, I get to meet all my actors, who I'm going to work with. And I get to just see the set and everything, it's really fun, [to] meet all the cast and crew."
(On what her first day on set is like, age 8)

"Peter is one of the nicest people I've ever met. He talked to me all the time and would always open the van doors for me when we would go to set. He reminded me of my real dad. We talked about our scenes together. He made everything fun."
(On Peter Krause, her Lost Room co-star, age 8)

"I love that one, it's fun to watch."
(On her favorite episode of Fear Factor, age 7)

"Making this film was such a special time for me. I learned so much and had a great time. I feel really lucky."
(On her film Babel, age 7)

"Now, what they're doing right now is they're putting fake sweat on me, to make me look really hot. But I don't think they really should do it, because I'm probably gonna be hot anyway, but I know they have to."
(On working conditions in the Sonora Desert, age 7)

"He's getting in the mood."
(On her Babel co-star, Nathan Gamble's method acting, age 7)

"If you tell me a really sad story about my family..."
(On what would make her cry for a sad scene in Babel, age 7)

"Yeah it was great, it was so much fun! Kids were talking to us in Spanish and we were like 'what?', and I'm like (nods uncertainly) 'yeah?'"
(On language differences while filming Babel, age 7)

"Hi. Thank you for everything, I had a great time here and I'll miss it a lot. And, I hope I can come back someday. Thank you!"
(Elle's speech to Mexican extras on the last day of filming Babel, age 7)

"I love it. I just love how you get to be different people and have different names."
(On acting, age 6)

"I'll do anything. There's nothing I don't want to do."
(On acting, age 6)

"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 the fun parts of showbiz, age 6)

"I'm going to call it Elle's Cookbook. Dakota would be in the audience. She's not allowed to be on the show because it's not her show."
(On her plans for a future cooking show, age 6)

"I'm glad they picked me to be Ruth."
(On her role in The Door in the Floor, age 5)

"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."
(On her Door in the Floor co-stars, age 5)

"When I get home at the end of the day I'm just worn out."
(On working life, age 5)

"Her boys died, and she had me, and she doesn't want to love [Ruth] too much because she's afraid that something's going to happen to me."
(On Kim Basinger's character in The Door in the Floor, age 5)

"I can see it when I'm grown up, like 30 or something."
(On The Door in the Floor, age 5)

"Every day [my character] is just depressed, depressed, depressed. You don't really do anything. You don't smile, you don't laugh. You think how Ruth would really feel."
(On her character, Ruth, in The Door in the Floor, age 5)

"I just remember them. We do all the scenes that I'm in, and then we're done."
(On learning her lines, age 5)

"We love playing, like she's the mom, and I'm the daughter."
(On playing with her big sister, age 5)

"Not really. But sometimes we do, when we're at home."
(On whether she gets to play with Dakota very often, age 5)

"I love playing with Barbies. I have, like, 40. I collect Care Bears. I have 10."
(On her passions, age 5)

"I love to see what your voice, what character you're playing, I love... your dress, and what you wear."
(On making My Neighbour Totoro, age 5)

"We dot the eyes with blue icing and make blonde hair with yellow."
(On making her gingerbread family, age 5)

"When we make brownies I'll leave some of them out for him (Santa), too."
(On special treats for Santa, age 5)

"I like stirring in the chocolate and putting in the chocolate chips. Sometimes I get to lick the spoon! When you mix them with the chocolate chips, they're so good."
(On her bake time favorites, age 5)

"Dakota is my favorite actress."
(On her special favorite, age 5)

"We were asleep one night, and Flounder was in his fishbowl. He flipped out of the bowl and died."
(On the loss of her pet goldfish, age 5)

"At the day care center, her mother, my mother in the scene, gives me a pink cell phone around my neck, to call her if it has a problem."
(On her first scene in Daddy Day Care, age 4)

"Oh I guess jumping in the flowers, and the water scenes, cause we got to be in bathing suits and, swim in the water, and in the water fountain."
(On her favorite scene in Daddy Day Care, age 4)

"I just love working with Eddie Murphy. Eddie Murphy's so funny!"
(On her Daddy Day Care co-star, age 4)

"My first time was when I worked with my sister in I Am Sam. So, I think I did... one movie, and this is my, you know, two movies."
(On her role in Daddy Day Care, age 4)

"He can take his finger off. Really!"
(On Eddie Murphy, age 4)

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