Rachel McAdams Quotes

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.

I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.

I'm not an amazing cook, but I can follow a recipe.

I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.

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

I've been given lots of great advice, in my life. As an actor, just being as honest and as present as you can be.

You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.

I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.

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

We were there [ in the newsroom] through the elections [2008] so it was quite a frenzy going on. The other thing I learn is that journalists are very messy.

I loved superhero stuff.So comfortable, I got to wear like orthopedic running shoes every day.

I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be really resourceful.

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.

I would like to be invisible because I'd love to go into people's houses and see their interior decorating.

Chemistry is so important in a great kiss. You can act your way through anything, but its hard with a kiss.

During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

You really don't have a life when you're working. I always think "oh, I'm gonna see everybody on my days off. I'm gonna read so many books and see so many films" and then three months go by.

I find it's a very positive movement and something you can do every day in little ways. Our philosophy on the website (www.greenissexy.org) is not to have green guilt, do what you can.

I was a little jealous of the levitation cloak but I was happy to be comfortable [on Doctor Strange set].

There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape who I am.

I've always liked dressing up. And I love a high heel - the higher the better. I just feel funny in flats.

The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.

I'm a little funny when it comes to blood and guts and stuff like that.

Often with film, I find that you're just really getting to know a person. They're just starting to sink in, and then you wrap the film.

I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.

Growing up I had a real disconnect with the planet.

I learn that you can work really hard and still have a great time. That is part of Russell Crowe philosophy.

I loved being a part of [Dr. Strange] it so of course you know I would be more than happy to go forward with it. But you know, who knows.

I think they [Judy Blume comics] are so different from the Dr. Strange ones are so different from the other, from the other comics which is nice.

I was kind of reading you know Judy Blume and stuff like that. But yeah, but I've since educated myself.

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.

I hadn't read the Dr. Strange comics growing up.

It was just great to be in such great hands [of the Marvel Universe].

I would fly around a lot. I would fly around the world.

I guess I'm an actor - just human behaviour's just fascinating to me. I mean, I'd like to be.

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

Would I rather be dental floss or a toothbrush? is that a question? Um, I would actually rather be floss, I think, if I was using me. Because I don't really floss enough.

I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in Morning Glory with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.

New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.

I always wish I could go back and see the people that I love as children.

The Washington Post was interesting because it's such a politically minded newspaper.

I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.

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

Selfishly I'd like to have invisibility because I've always wanted to go into other people's houses and see what they look like and just watch them interact.

If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling.

I do think having a mother as a nurse who's a very kind of compass - , she's so compassionate and she really unfortunately would take her work home with her sometimes.

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.

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.

You know, like high heels are not - , you know the older you get the harder it is to wear them.

I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.