Rooney Mara Professions : Film actress Born : April 17, 1985 Browse All Authors Top 46 quotes by Rooney Mara I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world. Rooney Mara invisible people world 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 important people thinking 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 play jobs character 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. Rooney Mara nice home long I was a pretty dark person to begin with. I have always been more drawn to darkness Rooney Mara persons darkness dark 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. Rooney Mara There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge. Rooney Mara scared challenges 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 actors fighting might 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 team play sports 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 comedy dark years I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession. Rooney Mara psychiatry profession Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word Rooney Mara ipods black character 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. Rooney Mara energy attention people 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 weekend littles school I always want to be as quick and decisive as I can be. Rooney Mara i-can want 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. Rooney Mara isolated good-friend made Beaches and romantic comedies are not my thing. I'm a workaholic. Rooney Mara workaholic comedy beach 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 naked two book 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 different sleep people 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 Rooney Mara appreciate live-in-the-moment believe Similar Authors Isabella Rossellini film-actress Izabella Scorupco film-actress Betty Buckley film-actress Bipasha Basu film-actress Butterfly McQueen film-actress Bryce Dallas Howard film-actress All Authors
