Rooney Mara Quotes

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

I always dream about other musicians. And they're never interested in hanging out with us. It's like being at school and the bigger boys don't want to play with you!

I don't consider myself a pariah.

Everyone can relate to being bullied. Everyone can relate to wanting to fit in and being part of a clique.

When I had long hair, I used to tie it back, so the guys would say I would look like the 'Gypsy.' I used to hate that, but the less you like a nickname, the more it sticks.

The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.

Everyone in life knows what it's like to be picked on and to feel like an outsider.

Anybody who's gone through puberty has understood what it feels like to be an outcast and alone.

I never understood alienation. Alienation from what? You have to want to be part of something in order to feel alienated from it.

I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a locked room.

I wouldn't get asked to dances because I wasn't as petite and cute as the other girls.

I wasn't bullied or anything, but I didn't really fit in.

I'm definitely gonna be an outcast.

Growing up in the '80s in central New Jersey as a weird kid with a blue mohawk listening to the Sex Pistols and dressing really funky, I was bullied pretty badly. It was every single day in elementary school and kept going into middle school, too. I felt totally alone, without a single person there for me.

Whenever I used to do sports at school, there were those children who were picked last. I just wasn't picked at all.

I don't know why everyone refers to me as White Pele. I don't like it.

Well, I've always felt connected to the outsider.

I was ostracized by my community.

I mean, I definitely relate to not being a part of the popular crowd.

Pick any scientific field, and you'll find that those snubbed by their communities, left feeling alone and despised, were often those on the forefront.

I wasn't popular in high school; I had no friends.

Let's just say I didn't get invited to a lot of frat parties.

I discovered that I was 'different' in the third grade. As the new kid at school, I was trying hard to find my footing. I thought I had made friends with a couple of girls - until they stopped talking to me. When I confronted them, they said their mothers had warned them to stay away because they might catch my skin condition.

I always felt just that I didn't fit into certain groups.

Paradoxically, by insisting on engaging with Muslims as a separate group, the authorities make many of them feel even more excluded.