Rooney Mara Quotes

Being an actor in Hollywood involves lots of things beyond acting. Charm really helps.

I've never played the PR game.

I am not good with PR or in projecting a certain image of myself, and I don't give clarifications about rumours; that's it.

I don't stage my own publicity.

I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

In my first company, Seer Technologies, where I was chief technology officer, we shied away from the media. We watched every word and were guarded in front of journalists.

I never 'went Hollywood.' Perhaps some of my behavior was detrimental to my career, but I couldn't go the route of Hollywood parties.

My biggest problem in my life is I'm cheap and I didn't hire a publicist. In every awkward interview, normally actors get these things scripted.

It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.

I know actors who court personal publicity because they believe no publicity is bad publicity.

You can take a position with the media, but don’t necessarily get in their face.

My New Year's resolution is to make sure I genuflect appropriately before the Chicago media on everything I do.

They put out statements to make themselves look good.

There are two things that you should never do in front of the TV cameras. You should not make love and you should not make peace.

I only do the press for the work. I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote or endorse things or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

I've seen people 'turn up' for the camera, thinking that this is the best way to maximize their platform and get more camera time. This formula works, but it's shortsighted.

It sounds odd, but it's almost hard to find a piece of negative press about myself.

My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

If you have to release bad news to the public, it would help if you are not ugly.

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

I could be rude [with the media]. I could pull some of the [Bill] Parcells stuff, but I couldn’t get away with it. I wasn’t Parcells. They make light of it, but they’re not making light of it with me.

I've never been able to control my public image.

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.