I was a pretty dark person to begin with. I have always been more drawn to darkness — Rooney Mara Dark Copy Share Image
In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy. — Rooney Mara Compassion Copy Share Image
It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail. — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
I pick up energy really easily. Even if I go to the grocery store, and no one is paying attention to me,… — Rooney Mara Attention Copy Share Image
I don't know how to play the guitar, so having to be on stage in front of people doing something you don't… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
There's only so many movies you can do. I start to get really self-loathing and sick of myself. And I think in… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
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. — Rooney Mara Camera Copy Share Image
The more people know about you, the less they can project who you are supposed to be. It's unfortunate that you really… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
One of the things that make our version that much more heartbreaking is that even though I am playing a 24-year-old I… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
I need a lot of alone time as a human. And especially on a movie set when you're around people all day… — Rooney Mara Alone time Copy Share Image
The motorcycle was the thing I really didn't want to do... 'You're going to be raped, be naked...' but as soon as… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
I am one of 40 grandchildren. What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
As an actor, you can't just be in the film. You're also in charge of selling it, and so you have to… — Rooney Mara Actor Copy Share Image
I've always been a very sensitive person, and people tell me that if I'm in a certain mood, and I go into… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
People think that I grew up going to Barneys for my back-to-school clothes. I went to the Gap. We lived in a… — Rooney Mara Clothes Copy Share Image
It's really hard coming of age in today's society, where society wants you to make the decision of what you want to… — Rooney Mara Age Copy Share Image
I try to eat food that hasn't been washed in ammonia and then packaged in the shape of breaded dinosaurs filled with… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
I've been trying to really live in the moment because I will never get this part of it back. As soon as… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
Nightmare on Elm Street' was a really hard movie to make, and I didn't love the experience, but I would never take… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
Daniel Day-Lewis - he's a man, obviously, but I really admire his work. — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
Beaches and romantic comedies are not my thing. I'm a workaholic. — Rooney Mara Beach Copy Share Image
I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
I don't know what I'm searching for. I haven't found it. I don't have a job, and I don't have anything lined… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first — Rooney Mara Acting Copy Share Image
I'm probably more insane than most people and less than a lot of others. I'm somewhere in the middle. — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
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… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
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… — Rooney Mara Actor Copy Share Image
I didn't even have pierced ears. They put four holes in each ear, and, weirdly, that hurt the most. — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
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… — Rooney Mara Comedy Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I… — Rooney Mara Actor Copy Share Image
