Dakota Fanning has been an actress for more than half her life, but that doesn't seen unusual to the 18-year-old New York University student.

"I've never really felt like a child star. That name always felt really odd to me," Fanning tells the April/May 2012 issue of Wonderland magazine. "I've just felt like I was an actor at 6 and 7 and, you know, a child who happened to act. But when you turn 18 you're seen as able to do more things and more roles."

Fanning first gained notoriety with her scene-stealing role in 2001's I Am Sam, playing Sean Penn's bright, but sad, little girl.

"For someone who's that young to feel completely at home being filmed playing someone else, that really means that that's where you belong," the actress reflects. "So that's how I view that film as a whole -- as a moment when I just realized, 'I could do this. I could do this forever.'"

Like her Runaways costar Kristen Stewart, 21, Fanning hopes to keep her private life private -- and that begins with staying away from social media.

"I really don't need to let people know where I am and what I'm doing. I feel like a lot of people want their privacy but yet they tell people where they are," she tells Wonderland. "It's just not for me. I don't have a Facebook or Twitter and I won't ever. There's plenty of impostors out there! There's enough Dakota Fannings on Twitter for all of us!"

滬江娛樂快訊：日前，18歲的達(dá)科塔·范寧登上時(shí)尚雜志《Wonderland》4/5月刊封面。并且暢談自己的成名作《我是山姆》、童星的經(jīng)歷對(duì)自己的影響等。

很多觀眾都是通過2001年，肖恩·潘主演的《我是山姆》一片認(rèn)識(shí)達(dá)科塔·范寧。而她自己也認(rèn)為這部電影是她的啟蒙之作，讓她意識(shí)到電影是她所喜愛的事業(yè)。也因?yàn)樵谶@部片子中的出色表演，她被稱為好萊塢炙手可熱的童星。不過達(dá)科塔·范寧自己卻對(duì)“童星”這一稱號(hào)不太感冒。她表示，她覺得自己只是在6、7歲的時(shí)候特別會(huì)演戲而已?，F(xiàn)在她已經(jīng)18歲了，已經(jīng)能出演更多不同的角色了。

盡管現(xiàn)在只有18歲，但是范寧對(duì)年輕人熱衷的社交網(wǎng)絡(luò)卻毫不感興趣。她沒有twitter和facebook的賬號(hào)。她認(rèn)為自己不需要告訴其他人自己現(xiàn)在身處何地，自己在干什么。