Kate Mara

Kate: Yeah, I love stage. I love it. I would love to do that so much. That's how I started. That's basically how I learned how to act was in theatre. I think the first play I did, I was nine or something like that, just community stuff, and that was really my acting school.

Kate: For as long as I could remember, I had always wanted to be an actress. I grew up watching movie musicals, all the old classics like Gypsy. That's what I grew up on. I fell in love with Broadway and musicals.

Kate: (on singing the National Anthem before a NY Giants game) At family dinner parties, it would always come up-'Oh, sing for us!' That, to me, was the most horrifying thing. But singing in front of thousands of people was so much easier. First of all, I couldn't see anyone. Plus, I mean, come on, they're at a football game, they're drinking!

Kate: I grew up in New York so every home game, we would wake up, go to church, and drive an hour to the stadium in New Jersey. Every Sunday, it was church, then football.

Kate: (About her character on Shooter) I like that she's a really strong Southern woman and she's very different from anyone I've played before. It's hard for her when Swagger just shows up in her life, because he brings back all these demons and reminds her of the husband she lost. She's sort of thrown into a tough dilemma – but she can't help but care about Swagger and feel for him.

Kate: (On being drawn to screenplay) I couldn't put it down, it was just too suspenseful.

Kate Mara: (on what she needs to learn) How to get over rejection quickly and not take it so personally. Sometimes I do because I still have doubts about myself.

Kate Mara: (on what is unique about her) I think I'm so normal. I try to make all the roles I do feel as normal as possible so people believe them. People relate to the regular-looking person.