Rachel McAdams Quotes - BrainyQuote

Canadian - Actress Born: October 7, 1976

Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.

Good Through Workout Luggage

I think there's something really powerful and refreshing about a woman who is unapologetic.

Woman Think Powerful Refreshing

I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

Life Love You Romantic

I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

Food Amazing I Can Follow

I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.

Love Time Love Is People

I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.

Love Wedding Boat I Can

It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.

Change Me Hair Color

I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

Life You Think Complicated

You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.

Love Myself Time You

You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.

You Believe Acting Story

Top 10
Rachel McAdams
Quotes

I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?

Love Character You Hate

My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.

Beauty Time Mother World

It's funny the things the Internet likes to proclaim.

Funny Internet Things Likes

I need to have better knife skills... for vegetables.

Better Knife Vegetables Need

I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.

You Together City Adventure

I definitely was in the sequined, bedazzled era. We would put blue eye shadow up our eyebrows and glitter all over our faces. I probably put more effort into my skating outfits than my clothes.

Shadow Blue Effort Clothes

The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.

Good Restaurant Friends Someone

I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the world. But it's fine, you know, you move on to something else.

You World End Know

I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!

Work Myself Good Great

A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.

World Great Friend Scenery

I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.

You Look Out Where

You want people to buy you as just about anything. So if they think that you're one thing, it's hard to slip into, you know, all these other things.

You People Think Know

With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.

Time Character You Sympathy

I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'

Me Children Night Amazing

It's the messiness of life that ultimately leads you to the most interesting things. Everyone asks what you would do over, and I don't know because then you have this story to tell, and if you did everything over and made it perfect, what would you talk about?

Life You Know Perfect

I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.

Life Me Curiosity Forward

Loading...

Load more quotes

Related Authors

Shay Mitchell
Quotes

Mary Pickford
Quotes

Cobie Smulders
Quotes

Vanessa Morgan
Quotes

Sandra Oh
Quotes

Emmanuelle Chriqui
Quotes

Evangeline Lilly
Quotes

Ellen Page
Quotes

BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote Of The Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

BQ on Instagram

Apps

iPhone/iPad app

Quote Of The Day Feeds

Javascript and RSS feeds

WordPress plugin

Quote of the Day Email

About

Copyright © 2001 - 2019 BrainyQuote