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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More Rachel McAdams Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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 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’ve had heartbreaking auditions where they don’t even look at you. You’re out before you’re in.
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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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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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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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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’m not an amazing cook, but I can follow a recipe.
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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 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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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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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 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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Growing up I had a real disconnect with the planet.
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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 would fly around a lot. I would fly around the world.
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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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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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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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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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