Rooney Mara Quotes

I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups.
Rooney Mara

Sports, Play, Big

I am one of 40 grandchildren. What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.
Rooney Mara

Family, Everything, Everyone

As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary.
Rooney Mara

Everything, Seems, Scary

I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.
Rooney Mara

Fighting, Afraid, Wanted

I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world.
Rooney Mara

Everything, Understand, Before

I didn't even have pierced ears. They put four holes in each ear, and, weirdly, that hurt the most.
Rooney Mara

Hurt, Put, Four

I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends.
Rooney Mara

School, Public, Weekends

I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages.
Rooney Mara

Sleep, Different, While

I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old.
Rooney Mara

Funny, Pretty, Dark

I've been trying to really live in the moment because I will never get this part of it back. As soon as the movie comes out, everyone will turn it into what they believe it is, so I've really been trying to appreciate every minute of now. Because I know what's coming.
Rooney Mara

Live, Trying, Moment

If there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking. Also, the people whom I grew up with all did things they really loved. And I think that's an important lesson.
Rooney Mara

Family, Important, Everyone

It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.
Rooney Mara

Afraid, Might, Fail

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word.
Rooney Mara

Character, Black, She

My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first.
Rooney Mara

Acting, Wanted, College

Now I literally roll out of bed and put on whatever is there. I have really enjoyed being a boy this last year.
Rooney Mara

Put, Whatever, Last

One of the things that make our version that much more heartbreaking is that even though I am playing a 24-year-old I look much younger. I look like a child.
Rooney Mara

Child, Playing, Though

The more people know about you, the less they can project who you are supposed to be. It's unfortunate that you really only get one shot at that.
Rooney Mara

Less, Project, Shot

There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge.
Rooney Mara

Thought, Challenge, Scared

There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out.
Rooney Mara

Women, Dead, Used

What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.
Rooney Mara

Family, Everything, Everyone

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Nationality: American

Born: 1985

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