Rooney Mara Quotes

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.

To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name.

I still don't think I'm a good actor. The only reason I'm doing it is because I've got a lot of support behind me.

I'm not really an actress.

I wanted to become an actor, but I didn't want to admit it.

I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed.

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

Of course when I started, it's not because I was such a brilliant actress. I didn't know I was good. I thought I was really bad. I was very shy. I was 18 and dreaming of becoming an actress.

There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.

Acting is always something I thought I could do, and I thought I would be pretty good at it, but I thought that I missed the opportunity, that it was too late.

With the first album, I wanted to do so many different things, and I was fighting with myself to try and see if I was worthy enough to do it.

I don't know how I could have an acting career with this.

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

Acting scares me.

My problem with being an actor was that I was far too shy to actually do it.

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.

The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it.

Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.

Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was - Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it.

I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that.

It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention.