Rooney Mara Quotes

#1. Grace Kelly, Rita Hayworth and Sofia Lauren are my style inspirations. In terms of modern day actresses who I find inspiring, I love Emma Stone, Rooney Mara, Kirsten Dunst and Evan Rachel Wood. They aren't afraid to take risks and make edgy.

Carly Steel

#2. With her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,' Rooney Mara gave fashion fans a new Gothic-chic muse.

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#3. 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

#4. I don't know how to play the guitar, so having to be on stage in front of people doing something you don't really know how to do, it's terrifying.

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#5. 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.

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

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#7. I was a pretty dark person to begin with. I have always been more drawn to darkness

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#8. I always want to be as quick and decisive as I can be.

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

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#10. There's only so many movies you can do. I start to get really self-loathing and sick of myself. And I think in order to act, you need to live a little bit to fill yourself with experience.

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#11. 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.

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#12. When I was at college, my nickname was Keds, because I wore Keds. I guess it wasn't really a nickname, because nicknames are usually given to you by people who are your friends and who know you.

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#13. I need a lot of alone time as a human. And especially on a movie set when you're around people all day long. So it's actually kind of nice to go home to a hotel and be alone and unwind.

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

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#15. 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.

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

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

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#18. The motorcycle was the thing I really didn't want to do ... 'You're going to be raped, be naked ... ' but as soon as he was like, 'You're going to have to ride a motorcycle,' I was like, 'Oh, really?'

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#19. 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.

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#20. 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.

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#21. As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary.

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

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

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#24. I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession.

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#25. I'm sure you get energy from your audience; it's a high.

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#26. 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.

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#27. I've made some really good friends from movies, but a lot of the time it's a very isolated experience that lives and dies during the production.

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#28. On stage, there are hundreds of people watching you. It's so much energy directed at you. I pick up energy really easily. Even if I go to the grocery store and no one is paying attention to me, I can pick up other people's moods and it's really intense.

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#29. 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.

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#30. 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.

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#31. I wouldnt call acting a job - its a pleasure. I love getting to play different characters, getting to play dress up, and getting paid for it.

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

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#33. Beaches and romantic comedies are not my thing. I'm a workaholic.

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#34. I think people like to exaggerate about the number of takes you do.

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#35. When you're an actor on set, people treat you like a giant baby. They don't let you do anything. Like, "Do you need any food? Do you need the bathroom?"

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