Rooney Mara
Rooney Mara

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.

Rooney Mara
Rooney Mara

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

Rooney Mara
Rooney Mara

I try to eat food that hasn't been washed in ammonia and then packaged in the shape of breaded dinosaurs filled with cheese - even though those are very tasty. I like to eat food that can actually make it through the 20-plus feet of my small intestine.

Rooney Mara
Rooney Mara

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
Rooney Mara

It's really hard coming of age in today's society, where society wants you to make the decision of what you want to do with your life by the time you're 16 years old. Most kids don't know what they want to do. How could they? They haven't lived in the real world yet.

Rooney Mara
Rooney Mara

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
Rooney Mara

I'm probably more insane than most people and less than a lot of others. I'm somewhere in the middle.

Rooney Mara
Rooney Mara

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
Rooney Mara

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.

Rooney Mara
Rooney Mara

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

Rooney Mara
Rooney Mara

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.

Rooney Mara
Rooney Mara

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
Rooney Mara

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

Rooney Mara
Rooney Mara

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

Rooney Mara
Rooney Mara

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.

Rooney Mara
Rooney Mara

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

Rooney Mara
Rooney Mara

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
Rooney Mara

Marion Cotillard is one of my favorite actresses.

Rooney Mara
Rooney Mara

I don't find myself intriguing.

Rooney Mara
Rooney Mara

I've always been a very sensitive person, and people tell me that if I'm in a certain mood, and I go into a room, my mood will permeate the room. It's not on purpose - I'd rather be invisible in those moments - but I'm really bad at faking how I feel.