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 More Quotes by Rooney Mara More Quotes From 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 invisiblepeopleworld 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 importantpeoplethinking 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 playjobscharacter 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 nicehomelong I was a pretty dark person to begin with. I have always been more drawn to darkness Rooney Mara personsdarknessdark 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 scaredchallenges 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 actorsfightingmight 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 teamplaysports 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 comedydarkyears I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession. Rooney Mara psychiatryprofession Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word Rooney Mara ipodsblackcharacter 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 energyattentionpeople 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 weekendlittlesschool I always want to be as quick and decisive as I can be. Rooney Mara i-canwant 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 isolatedgood-friendmade Beaches and romantic comedies are not my thing. I'm a workaholic. Rooney Mara workaholiccomedybeach 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 nakedtwobook 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 differentsleeppeople 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 appreciatelive-in-the-momentbelieve
