I’ve had heartbreaking auditions where they don’t even look at you. You’re out before you’re in.
RACHEL MCADAMSI 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.
More Rachel McAdams Quotes
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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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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 would fly around a lot. I would fly around the world.
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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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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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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 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 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 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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New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.
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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 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’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 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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