“It's really hard coming of age in today's society, where society wants...” — Rooney Mara Quote

It's really hard coming of age in today's society, where society wants you to make the decision of what you want to do with your life by the time you're 16 years old. Most kids don't know what they want to do. How could they? They haven't lived in the real world yet.

I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world.

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.

I love to read. I'm still pen pals with my ninth-grade English teacher, Mr. Shanley. He tells me what books to read.

By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.

By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

My body is not supportive of my career. My body has other plans for me. My body's plan is to slowly rot from the inside. By the time I'm ready to have kids, it's not going to be viable to do that.