Rooney Mara Quotes

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

  Rooney Mara

  People, World, Invisible

  "Scarlett Johansson Was Too Sexy For ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2011.

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

  Rooney Mara

  Dark, Darkness, Persons

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

  Rooney Mara

  Challenges, Scared

  "Rooney Mara Talks 'Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' Transformation" by Terri Schwartz, www.mtv.com. November 10, 2011.

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• 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.

  Rooney Mara

  Jobs, Character, Play

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• 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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  Nice, Home, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Important

  "Rooney Mara: Playing with Fire". Interview with Jonathan Van Meter, www.vogue.com. October 17, 2011.

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• 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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  Character, Ipods, Black

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• If the character should be nude in the scene and it makes sense and I trust the person making the film then I don't see a problem with it. I certainly don't want to be involved in anything that is gratuitous, but I don't think the human body is something to be ashamed of. Every other person on the planet has the same parts as I do.

  Rooney Mara

  Character, Thinking, Body

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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, Actors, Might

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• 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

  Dark, Years, Comedy

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• 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 up. I don't know what I'm looking for.

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• I always want to be as quick and decisive as I can be.

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  Want, I Can

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

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  Sports, Team, Play

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

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  Psychiatry, Profession

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• 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, Weekend, Littles

  "Rooney Mara: Playing with Fire". Interview with Jonathan Van Meter, www.vogue.com. October 17, 2011.

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

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  Thinking, Numbers, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Rooney Mara

  Thinking, Self, Order

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Rooney Mara

  Beach, Comedy, Workaholic

  Source: collider.com

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• 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, People, Different

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• 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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  People, Energy, Attention

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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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  Believe, Appreciate, Live In The Moment

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• 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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  Good Friend, Made, Isolated

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I pierced one nipple. Not both. Just one. She has it in the books and I wanted to get as many of the piercings as I could, and I spent so much time on this film naked, and I just had to be really comfortable with that right away . . . I'm gonna keep it for now. I don't want to have to repierce that should we do the other two films.

  Rooney Mara

  Book, Two, Naked

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

  Rooney Mara

  College, Acting, Twelve

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• 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

  Thinking, Expression, People

  "'Girl with the dragon tattoo' star Rooney Mara talks Nude Poster" by Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. October 17, 2011.

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