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My obsession with Rooney Mara began to bubble up during her dynamic opening scene in The Social Network and with next week's long-awaited debut of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -- plus her subsequent red carpet appearances -- that obsession is poised to boil over.

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In her latest profile, Rooney fronts the January issue of Allure, which always asks it's covergirl to reflect upon old photos (it's my favorite recurring magazine section).

Here are a few of my favorite quotes from Rooney's look into her past:

On her role in a 2006 episode of Law & Order: SVU:
"People are obsessed with that show. I don't get it. Me and my boyfriend -- although I [didn't] look old enough to have a boyfriend [in the episode] -- went and beat up these fat people, who then sodomized me, and at the end of the show you find out that I used to be obese and I hate fat people. It's ridiculous. Who would ever do that? Who would beat someone up because they're fat? And as retribution, they sodomized her. I mean, I've been sodomized since the beginning of my career. I should have known then it would come full circle."

On her role in 2009's The Winning Season:
That was a very fun movie to make. There's sweet little Emma [Roberts], and Shakeera [Epps]. It's a basketball movie, so we'd shoot at night, because that was the only time we could shoot at the school gyms. We'd run around pantsing each other."

On 2010's A Nightmare on Elm Street:
"I made some really good friends on that movie and had some really good times. But horror movies are not my thing."

On 2010's The Social Network:
"Am I as cool as [Erica Albright] is? Maybe to an extent. Not cool; I would say I'm quite aloof. The story out there is that we did this scene 99 times. I don't know if that's entirely true or not, but we definitely did it a lot."

On 2011's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo:
"I don't smoke. I smoked for the film. I think I'm addicted in character. If I had to go to set right now and work, I would crave a cigarette. But otherwise, I don't.

"Nudity is such a huge part of the character in the book, so I never thought twice about it. There was no time for hesitation. I didn't have time to second guess anything or be scared; I just showed up and was comfortable."