Top 35 Rooney Mara Quotes

I’d like to flip houses.

As an actor, you can’t just be in the film. You’re also in charge of selling it, and so you have to sell yourself, and you have to be very political and make sure to not say the wrong things. It’s exhausting.

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.

I love to read. I’m still pen pals with my ninth-grade English teacher, Mr. Shanley. He tells me what books to read.

I feel like I’ve been guarded since I was about three years old. I don’t know why. I come from such a huge family, so maybe it’s that. Maybe it comes from going to Christmas and having 30 people all in your face at once. I’ve always been a bit like, ‘Aaargh!’

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

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.

It’s really helpful when you do something you don’t like. You won’t make that mistake again. It’s like dating a bunch of people who are wrong for you – you learn so much more about yourself that way.

Marion Cotillard is one of my favorite actresses.

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.

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.

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

When I do a film, I follow the director.

Daniel Day-Lewis – he’s a man, obviously, but I really admire his work.

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

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

In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.

I don’t find myself intriguing.

I’ve done jobs where I thought, ‘I don’t want to be that kind of actor; I don’t want to work on something with people who don’t have the same kind of goal as I do.’

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

Because I’m highly empathetic, it’s easy for me to put myself in the character’s shoes. It’s, you know, finding the truth of the moment.

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

People think that I grew up going to Barneys for my back-to-school clothes. I went to the Gap. We lived in a nice house on a cul-de-sac, but it wasn’t a mansion. We didn’t have a butler or a maid.

I never do anything for the camera. It’s my job to pretend the camera’s not there. I’m never moving for the camera.

How do we get to equality? I don’t think it comes from fear. I think it comes from understanding.

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.

I guess I don’t really measure myself by what others think. So even though I have gotten to work with some amazing directors, and you might perceive me to be that girl, that isn’t how I see myself. So if one day nobody wants to work with me, it won’t be this massive surprise.

If the entire script feels formulaic, then you know that the film will be like that. But if it’s a really interesting script, and the character happens to be formulaic, then maybe there’s a way of making them more interesting.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.