Rooney Mara Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”