Rooney Mara Quotes

I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.

My whole life, they said, 'Do not act. You need to get a college degree'.

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.

No one in my family had ever even gone to college.

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

I grew up in a family of actors. I grew up onstage. The choice for me wasn't, 'Do I want to be an actor or not?' I always felt like that's just ingrained in you, the need to perform. The choice was, 'Do you want to do this professionally or not?'

And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.

It was always assumed that I would go to college.

I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

My dad was an actor, so he would try and put me off and say, 'Come on, you've got to go to university first.'

I was born knowing I had to go to college.

I definitely want to continue being an actress. I love it. The reason I'm going to college is because I do want knowledge in another field. College isn't the college experience for me. I'm not going to be in a sorority. I'm not going to network. I'm not even really going to make my lifelong friends.

I went off to the University of California, Santa Barbara, on a boatload of loans, sights set on becoming a doctor or a lawyer.

My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.

I enjoyed my time at L.S.U. I wouldn't change it for anything. My dad went to college - my sisters, brothers - so I felt like I just had to, and I enjoyed it.

I never did figure on being a college man.

My mom, she wanted me to go to college and then after that you could do what you want.

I had done quite a bit of stage when I was younger, local stuff, musicals. Then I started professionally, I suppose, when I was 11, in London, in the West End, which was already huge for me.

I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians.

I've been acting since I was ten years old. I had two lines in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at the community theater I was very focused and I loved it. My parents believed in the arts and being well rounded. So I played piano and violin, I danced and acted. They never thought I would go into acting though. They just wanted a well-rounded child and it was a bit of a shock to my dad when I said "I want to go to acting school" because he is a psychology professor and was thinking of something more academic.

My parents always wanted me to go to college.

I cannot wait until the day I can go back to school... I've already picked my program: anthropology at Columbia. I will not get in, but a girl can dream.

When my father finished his Ph.D., my mother went back for another bachelor's degree, this time in environmental science.