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.
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More Rachel McAdams Quotes
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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.
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My mom’s a nurse so I’d kind of grown up with, around medicine which is probably why I became an actress instead.
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I guess I’m an actor – just human behaviour’s just fascinating to me. I mean, I’d like to be.
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I want my own cloak. I mean, that’s also up in the air that you know – . I haven’t really thought about it because it’s you know, really is sort of to be determined. I think the success of the film [Doctor Strange] determines that.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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I was kind of reading you know Judy Blume and stuff like that. But yeah, but I’ve since educated myself.
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I love vintage clothes. I have a real passion which probably comes from the days of my mum who had this great dress up box that she put all her clothes from the 60s and 70s in – platform shoes and jumpsuits and boots.
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I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.
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I hadn’t read the Dr. Strange comics growing up.
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I’m waiting for them to make ‘Thundercats’. I would love to be Cheetara.
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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.
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Growing up I had a real disconnect with the planet.
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I think I kind of grew up with that a little bit and have great admiration for people who do [medical practice] for a living and who are real empaths. So I suppose I drew on – , from my mom a bit.
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I would fly around a lot. I would fly around the world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I’ve had heartbreaking auditions where they don’t even look at you. You’re out before you’re in.
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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.
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I’m not an amazing cook, but I can follow a recipe.
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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.
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I think people are wise to keep love and work separate.
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