Quotes by Rachel Mcadams - Page 3

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?
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Notebook
Character
Hate
Missing
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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?
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Notebook
Wedding
Interpretation
Nervous
What If
Love Character Hate
Audition
Miss
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It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Connecting
Embarrassing
My Own
Picky
Bargain
Bring
Hold
Table
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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.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Sympathy
Complicated
Moving Away
Rise
Leeway
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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.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Friends
Attention
Craziest
Done
Good Friend
Guy
Lost
Actually
Admit
Touch
Good Friends
Pretended
Restaurant
Worked
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I had a small-town life - I worked at the local McDonald's for three years. I'm not sure why they kept me: I am something of a daydreamer and a dawdler, so they would only let me be the 'friendly voice' that greeted you when you entered the restaurant.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Friendly
Voice
Life I Am Me
Life Me I Am
Daydreamer
Entered
Local
Mcdonald
Restaurant
Worked
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I've really gotten to play a lot of different things, starting with 'Southpaw.' For 'Spotlight,' I got to play this amazing journalist, Sacha Pfeiffer, who worked at the 'Boston Globe' when they broke the story about the sex scandal in the Catholic Church.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Boston
Broke
Catholic
Catholic Church
Different Things
Scandal
Spotlight
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I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Romantic
Character
Delicious
Fall
Falling In Love
Fun
Romance
Stories
Favorite
Characters
Confess
Deeply
Explore
Films
Love Stories
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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.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Romantic
Complicated
Different
Fairytale
Hopeless
Hopeless Romantic
Straightforward
Life Love Believe
Very
Life Love Romantic
Find
Different Places
Discovered
Far
Grown
Places
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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?
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Interesting Things
Leads
Ultimately
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What bothers me is our culture's obsession with nudity. It shouldn't be a big deal, but it is. I think this overemphasis with nudity makes actors nervous. There's the worry about seeing one's body dissected, misrepresented, played and replayed on the Internet.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Big Deal
Nervous
Obsession
Worry
Bothers
Dissected
Misrepresented
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A kiss with anyone, on or off camera, can be intimidating. I’ve been kissing for nearly two decades now, and I’m always convinced I’m not doing it right. Chemistry is so important in a great kiss. You can act your way through anything, but it’s hard with a kiss.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Important
Kissing
Two
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A kiss with anyone, on or off camera, can be intimidating. I've been kissing for nearly two decades now, and I'm always convinced I'm not doing it right. Chemistry is so important in a great kiss. You can act your way through anything, but it's hard with a kiss.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Chemistry
Decades
Intimidating
Great Always Your
Nearly
Camera
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Don't you guys, like when you're driving at night and you're like, and you can kind of see through the window and you think, oh that looks so cozy in there. I wish I could like get a free pass. Yeah, so that's probably the one I'd pick. I'd be a total creeper but.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Guy
Night
Thinking
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I did get to shadow some amazing brain surgeons, a female brain surgeon in Toronto, another surgeon in London. And then we had a surgeon onset [of Doctor Strange] every day. So and he taught me to do sutures and was practicing on turkey breasts, raw turkey breasts.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Brain
Doctors
Turkeys
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Joan Cusack is one of my favorite comedic actresses, and every part she plays is so different. She does the wackiest stuff and somehow it works. I like watching her a lot, and I think you can always go further and pull back. That's something I really have to work on.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Comedic
Stuff
Works
Favorite
Further
Joan
Plays
Pull
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I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Art
Dad
Sports
Fulfilled
Hockey
Skating
Small Town
Totally
Art Form
Played
Surrounded
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I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute. We talk about things like, maybe my character can't afford these Christian Louboutins.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Cute
Smile
Character
Christian
Clothes
Shoes
Wigs
Afford
Conversations
Just Be
Preferable
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I definitely believe that you are drawn to certain things for inexplicable reasons, but in a very powerful way. I don't know what it is exactly, but I know that things happen kind of miraculously sometimes, and so I'm willing to believe that there's something pretty magical out there.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Believe
Inexplicable
Powerful
Things Happen
Way
Willing
Certain Things
Drawn
Exactly
Magical
Miraculously
Powerful Way
Reasons
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Kids
Birth
Exposure
Farms
Growing Up
Thinking
Grow Up
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You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Eye
Flying
Linked
Red
Therapy
Thinking
Wonder
Shot
Explore
Flyer
Pause
Perhaps
Plane
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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!
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Sanity
Work Good Great
Drawn
Good Projects
Maintain
Reasons
Recognize
Right Reasons
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I met journalists that were on both sides of things. People who are young, enthusiastic and hard working journalists working on the online side and people who had been there forever. There was one journalist who had running shoes under her desk in case she had to kick of her heels and go out and cover a breaking news story.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Running
Hard Work
News Stories
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I watched a lot of soap operas like 'General Hospital' and 'Days Of Our Lives.' When it came to movies, my parents were quite strict. They would watch 'Flash Dance' but wouldn't let us see the whole film because Jennifer Beals' character was a stripper. It was so funny when I finally saw the whole film. I thought she was a ballerina!
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Ballerina
Flash
Jennifer
Soap
Soap Operas
Strict
Watched
Hospital
Let Us
Operas
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Figure Skating
Florida
Lovely
Skates
Holidays
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In this film [The Last King of Scotland] I am the rooky in the cast. Everyone has miles of experience than me and Della is in the same situation, so life imitated art in many ways. I don't think I could be a journalist. I wouldn't make a very good journalist, especially in Washington and working in politics, which I think would be really tough.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Art
Kings
Thinking
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I would go to the beach in my turtle neck, all bundle up. I would read my book and kind of scowl, but I hadn't seen the most beautiful beaches in the world. We had a beach (in Canada) where you couldn't even go swimming. But once I travelled and saw more beautiful areas, my relationship to the planet expanded I started connect to it more and be more aware.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Beach
Beautiful
Book
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I spoke to a blogger. It was election time when we were doing the movie and Hillary Clinton was still in the running. This blogger was doing a story on democratic women who were anti-Hillary. He was on the computer speaking to these women and it made me realize that you can reach a much broader audience online but on the other hand Russell's [Crowe] character argues that you still need to get on the streets and see people face to face, and check your facts.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Running
Character
Hands
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It was in Australia. I started in Cairns and went up to Cape Tribulation, Port Douglas and then went to Fraser Island. It was there that I thought was quite heavenly. I just decided to go back packing somewhere and that's where I picked. It was just before I got the role in Hot Chick. A friend wanted to me to go to Australia and I was thinking my career is just starting, it's not a good time to leave but she told me that my career would always be there and I was only going to get more immersed in it, and she was right. So it was a good time to go.
Rachel Mcadams / Actress
Careers
Islands
Thinking
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