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Post by mortimer605 on Apr 22, 2017 13:07:11 GMT
Some of Rooney's famous quotes:
"I like being alone. I need a lot of alone time as a human."
"I think that I have a pretty vivid imagination despite my stable household. Everyone's family has their quirks. No one is perfect."
"I pick up energy really easily. Even if I go to the grocery store and no one is paying attention to me, I can pick up other people's moods and it's really intense."
"I'm probably more insane than most people, and less than a lot of others. I'm somewhere in the middle."
"When I was at college, my nickname was Keds, because I wore Keds. I guess it wasn't really a nickname, because nicknames are usually given to you by people who are your friends and who know you. But I didn't know the people who called me Keds. I think that they didn't like me because I didn't want to join a sorority. I left that school."
"When I was much younger I'd become friends with everyone. I was so enthusiastic. And then, the older you get, it's like you're friends during the day, but you know this isn't real life, you have better boundaries."
"My sister was really upset when my mom brought her home a training bra. She didn't want it, so I moseyed on over and picked it up. I was very eager to get boobs."
"It's not that different than when you're 4 years old playing house. I'm really good at playing house. I love playing house."
"I refuse to engage in anything until I'm fully sure that I'm capable of it."
"My favorite thing about acting isn't necessarily the acting part. It's that you never stop learning, you're constantly learning new skills and new things about people. To me that's really interesting and fun."
"I don't know if it's so much a movie that has a lot of money versus a movie that has no money. I think every film you do has its differences. It's about the combination of people that you're with."
[on Lisbeth Salander] "There aren't many interesting and diverse parts out there for women. There seem to be a few different stereotypical roles that get recycled, so it was refreshing to have this complex character for a woman; very rare."
[on portraying Lisbeth Salander] "I spent over a year with the character and there are so many different things that I love about her. I think the thing that makes her such a compelling character is that you do sort of fall instantly in love with her, but at the same time you don't always agree with what she's doing and you also question her and you get frustrated by her. She's just an incredibly multi-layered character."
[on her Lisbeth Salander character] "She's unlike any character I've read before, and I think there's a reason the whole world has fallen in love with her. It's hard not to. I felt like I really understood her. I went in for Erica Albright never thinking I'd get it because I couldn't really relate to her. Playing that character was actually much more foreign to me than playing Salander, but they loved me, which was a shock."
[on the poster for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)] "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."
"I don't think the human body is something to be ashamed of. Every other person on the planet has the same parts as I do. So seeing them shouldn't be a huge shock to most people."
[on her Lisbeth Salander character] "It's certainly hard to sort of embody such a dark place for that amount of time. I felt as though it was much harder to come out of it than it was to go into it. Going into it was really easy for me."
"You kind of forget that it's me on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). It doesn't look like me. It doesn't walk like me or talk like me. And so I think it was easier for my family to get lost in it than maybe any other part."
"Sometimes, you read a review to see if anyone else picked up on something bad that you already picked up on yourself... In fact, rarely do you believe it when someone says something nice."
"Everyone on set is also a gypsy. We're all like carnie folk. We're all freaks. We're all insane. But there is an understanding there."
[on the award season campaign placed on her for the romance drama Carol (2015)] "It's such a weird process... The whole thing feels kind of gross to me. If [Cate and I] were male and female, there probably would be no question. Getting nominated means something. You will get better parts, and I really do want people to see the film. But I don't feel like it's something I'm desperate for. I would forgo it all to keep my integrity."
[on if there is anyone currently working in Hollywood who has a career that she admires, 2015] "Cate Blanchett. I think Cate is kind of everybody's benchmark with everything she does. She does incredible work and always has. Definitely her. There's a lot of people. Daniel Day-Lewis - he's a man obviously, but I really admire his work. Marion Cotillard is one of my favorite actresses."
[on Christmas, 2015] "Last year, me and my siblings and even my parents were like, "No, I don't want a gift. I'm not getting you a gift. We're going to donate." Now I give everyone Oxfam - I get everyone goats and pigs and cows."
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Post by RedSparrow on Apr 22, 2017 13:17:06 GMT
"I refuse to engage in anything until I'm fully sure that I'm capable of it."
I've always loved this one.
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Post by nenya on Apr 24, 2017 19:05:31 GMT
“I’m a very quiet person. As a quiet person, I feel that’s wonderful. Extroversion is over-valued.”
"I’m kind of all or nothing. A lot of times, I feel like I have to spend some time living in order to act again"
“I don’t even like people to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to me. When we wrap a film and everyone claps and cheers, I turn red."“And then I have to walk out onto the middle of this carpet and there are all these photographers, and they’re all screaming at you.
And usually there’s a party at the other end of it, so it’s not even like I have solace at the end of the carpet! It’s like then I have to walk into my other nightmare!”[on her Lisbeth Salander character] “She’s not a badass, she’s not a punk. I hate it when people call her a punk or goth, because to me that’s just the antithesis of what she is. I think in order to be punk or goth, you have to be part of a group or part of a subculture, and her whole thing is that she never wants to draw attention to herself. She dresses the way she does because society has constantly, throughout her entire life, told her that she’s worthless.”[on Side Effects' role] “I think everyone has at some point in their lives been depressed, or at least sad. I had a lot of anxiety growing up because I was so shy, so I could relate to that part of it. But severe clinical depression is a whole other thing, and I guess I never really knew how bad it can get."source
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Post by sethan on Apr 24, 2017 19:23:34 GMT
"I refuse to engage in anything until I'm fully sure that I'm capable of it."I've always loved this one. Me too (Annette says hi) . Also love this  |
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Post by nenya on Apr 24, 2017 19:58:01 GMT
"I basically live my life in order to avoid embarrassment. I hate being embarrassed. That’s why I’m so hard on myself, there’s nothing worse than being embarrassed. I’ve definitely embarrassed myself many times.” link
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Post by finroon on Apr 24, 2017 20:59:58 GMT
"I basically live my life in order to avoid embarrassment. I hate being embarrassed. That’s why I’m so hard on myself, there’s nothing worse than being embarrassed. I’ve definitely embarrassed myself many times.” link This is so relatable 😅 |
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Post by nenya on Apr 24, 2017 21:07:47 GMT
"I basically live my life in order to avoid embarrassment. I hate being embarrassed. That’s why I’m so hard on myself, there’s nothing worse than being embarrassed. I’ve definitely embarrassed myself many times.” link This is so relatable 😅 oh i agree completetly! interesting though, that David Lowery described Rooney as “flawless and incapable of embarrassment", it might be the truth for the movie set ;) |
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Post by LaraQ on Apr 25, 2017 0:05:41 GMT
I relate to so many of those quotes.I`m more introvert than extrovert which is one of the reasons Rooney appeals to me and so may others.We see a bit of ourselves in her. :smile2:
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Post by mortimer605 on Apr 25, 2017 12:38:46 GMT
"My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first"
"I've made some really good friends from movies, but a lot of the time it's a very isolated experience that lives and dies during the production."
"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"
"I wouldnt call acting a job - its a pleasure. I love getting to play different characters, getting to play dress up, and getting paid for it."
"I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old"
"I was a pretty dark person to begin with. I have always been more drawn to darkness"
"I am one of 40 grandchildren. What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking. Also, the people whom I grew up with all did things they really loved. And I think that's an important lesson"
"I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages"
"Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word"
"I think people like to exaggerate about the number of takes you do."
"When you're an actor on set, people treat you like a giant baby. They don't let you do anything. Like, "Do you need any food? Do you need the bathroom?"
"I've been trying to really live in the moment because I will never get this part of it back. As soon as the movie comes out, everyone will turn it into what they believe it is, so I've really been trying to appreciate every minute of now. Because I know what's coming"
"I always want to be as quick and decisive as I can be."
"I'm sure you get energy from your audience; it's a high."
"I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession."
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Post by mortimer605 on Apr 25, 2017 12:58:47 GMT
"Beaches and romantic comedies are not my thing. I'm a workaholic."
"If the character should be nude in the scene and it makes sense and I trust the person making the film then I don't see a problem with it. I certainly don't want to be involved in anything that is gratuitous, but I don't think the human body is something to be ashamed of. Every other person on the planet has the same parts as I do."
"I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world."
"There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge."
"I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends."
"The motorcycle was the thing I really didn't want to do... 'You're going to be raped, be naked...' but as soon as he was like, 'You're going to have to ride a motorcycle,' I was like, 'Oh, really?'"
"I pierced one nipple. Not both. Just one. She has it in the books and I wanted to get as many of the piercings as I could, and I spent so much time on this film naked, and I just had to be really comfortable with that right away . . . I'm gonna keep it for now. I don't want to have to repierce that should we do the other two films."
"I don't know how to play the guitar, so having to be on stage in front of people doing something you don't really know how to do, it's terrifying."
"I need a lot of alone time as a human. And especially on a movie set when you're around people all day long. So it's actually kind of nice to go home to a hotel and be alone and unwind."
"There's only so many movies you can do. I start to get really self-loathing and sick of myself. And I think in order to act, you need to live a little bit to fill yourself with experience."
"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."
"One of the things that make our version that much more heartbreaking is that even though I am playing a 24-year-old I look much younger. I look like a child."
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Post by mortimer605 on Apr 25, 2017 13:08:05 GMT
"Now I literally roll out of bed and put on whatever is there. I have really enjoyed being a boy this last year. "
"I didn’t even have pierced ears. They put four holes in each ear, and, weirdly, that hurt the most."
"I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail."
"As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary."
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Post by nenya on Apr 25, 2017 15:57:20 GMT
that explains a lot ;)
"There's just a certain amount of attention you get as a girl, when you've got sort of long, pretty hair. I've never been someone to play up my sexuality with my wardrobe, I've always sort of played it down, but regardless as a girl there is a certain attention you get. When you have a weird haircut and no eyebrows and lots of piercings and you're dressing like a boy, people don't look at you, and I found it to be so freeing. To just roll out of bed in the morning and not worry about what you look like."
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Post by sethan on Mar 24, 2019 0:54:08 GMT
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Post by sethan on Aug 23, 2019 22:20:48 GMT
I love this so much. So inspiring :hearteyes: If someone asks me why Rooney is my favorite. Why bother posting here. This quote explains:
“Mara may love to act, but she hates to pretend, and so she’s drawn to the sort of conflicted women who are often confused for being cold, standoffish, or sulky (adjectives that only become more inaccurate when they’re applied to the actress herself, who’s every bit as present in person as she is on screen). But that’s the price you pay for being so real in a land of make-believe, for having such an intense allergy to bullshit in a world that’s on the brink of forgetting what the truth even looks like. “Generally in life,” she said, “people don’t just easily let go of their emotions and cry. Usually, you’re fighting it. You’re holding it back and don’t want anyone to see what’s going on inside — especially in this day and age, where there’s so much pressure to conform and be perfect. I understand that as an actor. I have to go out and constantly be this sort of politician selling a film and selling myself and also being this really together…” She trailed off, scooping up her legs from the floor and cradling them to her body. “It’s just that most people are doing the same thing, just trying to hold it together or make it look like they’re holding it together.”
Maybe all movie stars are this cognizant of the distance between how complicated people are and how simplistically they tend to see things, but Mara thrives in that blank space, she dives headfirst into a darkness that many performers would rather jump over. For her, it’s hard to fathom any other way of doing things. “To me, that’s just what it is to be human. You go out into the world, and every person out there is fighting some sort of battle that you have no idea about. That’s true for everyone — not just victims of sexual abuse.”
www.indiewire.com/2017/10/rooney-mara-benedict-andrews-una-interview-best-actress-1201884069/ |
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Post by sethan on Apr 23, 2022 15:09:45 GMT
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