91 Quotes by Rooney Mara

I’m sure you get energy from your audience; it’s a high.

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.

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

I’ve always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession.

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

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.

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.

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