Top 25 Rooney Mara Quotes

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

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

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.

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

When I do a film, I follow the director.

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!’

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

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.

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.’

On ‘Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,’ I spent two or three months learning how to ride a motorcycle. I wasn’t really riding the motorcycle in 98 percent of the movie, but the shots of me getting on and off had to look like I had been doing it for years and years.

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 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.

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.

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

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’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’d like to flip houses.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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