I’m a little funny when it comes to blood and guts and stuff like that.
RACHEL MCADAMSI 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.
More Rachel McAdams Quotes
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I’ve sort of heard that “it” girl thing, but not really. Hearing it from a few people doesn’t solidify it in my mind and I wouldn’t know how to solidify that title. It’s so elusive and what does it mean, I don’t know?
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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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New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.
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Growing up I had a real disconnect with the planet.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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I hadn’t read the Dr. Strange comics growing up.
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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.
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I’m not an amazing cook, but I can follow a recipe.
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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 have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.
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I’ve always liked dressing up. And I love a high heel – the higher the better. I just feel funny in flats.
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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 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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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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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 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.
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You know when you find a great dress, you’ve gotta hold on to it.
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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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I loved superhero stuff.So comfortable, I got to wear like orthopedic running shoes every day.
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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’ve had heartbreaking auditions where they don’t even look at you. You’re out before you’re in.
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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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