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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word.

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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.

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Quotes by Rooney Mara