Rachel McAdams quote: "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."

When you're playing music through the streets of London at 2 o'clock in the morning, there&#...
RACHEL MCADAMS

With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're...
RACHEL MCADAMS

I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the...
RACHEL MCADAMS

A kiss with anyone, on or off camera, can be intimidating. I've been kissing for nearly two deca...
RACHEL MCADAMS

You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I'...
RACHEL MCADAMS

I had a small-town life - I worked at the local McDonald's for three years. I'm not sure why...
RACHEL MCADAMS

I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crash...
RACHEL MCADAMS

I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when...
RACHEL MCADAMS

With any project I work on - not just 'True Detective' - I don't feel the need just to p...
RACHEL MCADAMS

I do have a side of me that would just love to be stuck in the woods and have to stick it out and be...
RACHEL MCADAMS

I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
RACHEL MCADAMS

You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.
RACHEL MCADAMS

I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of...
RACHEL MCADAMS

I definitely believe that you are drawn to certain things for inexplicable reasons, but in a very po...
RACHEL MCADAMS

I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film wh...
RACHEL MCADAMS

It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to chang...
RACHEL MCADAMS

I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.
RACHEL MCADAMS

I think there's something really powerful and refreshing about a woman who is unapologetic.
RACHEL MCADAMS

I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.
RACHEL MCADAMS

I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.
RACHEL MCADAMS

What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
RACHEL MCADAMS

I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.
RACHEL MCADAMS

I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be ver...
RACHEL MCADAMS

I need to have better knife skills... for vegetables.
RACHEL MCADAMS

I look at the world through a green lens now, but you can't make yourself crazy. That feeling of...
RACHEL MCADAMS

I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration run...
RACHEL MCADAMS

Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.
RACHEL MCADAMS

I always wish I could go back and see the people that I love as children.
RACHEL MCADAMS

My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced ...
RACHEL MCADAMS

What bothers me is our culture's obsession with nudity. It shouldn't be a big deal, but it i...
RACHEL MCADAMS

You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try n...
RACHEL MCADAMS

I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressu...
RACHEL MCADAMS

I find British men very gentlemanly... like opening doors. There is a certain chivalry about British...
RACHEL MCADAMS

You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a mov...
RACHEL MCADAMS

Timing can be everything in this town,
RACHEL MCADAMS

I could die happy tomorrow,
RACHEL MCADAMS

If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say...
RACHEL MCADAMS

You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.
RACHEL MCADAMS

[Rachel McAdams is quietly and cheerfully philosophical when it comes to talking about her impending...
RACHEL MCADAMS

I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison F...
RACHEL MCADAMS

I once made a - it was supposed to be a 30 minute - bean salad that took me like 6 hours.
RACHEL MCADAMS

I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes, and clothes...
RACHEL MCADAMS

I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes and clothes....
RACHEL MCADAMS

At nine years old, I was presented an opportunity to move to Toronto to train for pairs dancing. As ...
RACHEL MCADAMS

My parents opened a bank account for me when I was really little, and I think I paid for some of my ...
RACHEL MCADAMS

I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal,...
RACHEL MCADAMS

I watched a lot of soap operas like 'General Hospital' and 'Days Of Our Lives.' When...
RACHEL MCADAMS

I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I...
RACHEL MCADAMS

I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.
RACHEL MCADAMS

Kinda pointless to fight for what you want when what you want continues to break your heart
MOLLY MCADAMS

Chase.” He cleared his throat and shook his head once. “That girl means everything to me. Which ...
MOLLY MCADAMS

If your not living the dream or chasing the dream, then why continue to run?
CHRIS MCADAMS

The perspective is that of the creator looking back on the fruits of his or her creation and gracefu...
DAN MCADAMS

People mess up and make mistakes all the time. Everyone deserves a second chance right? - Brandon
MOLLY MCADAMS

I wouldn't be surprised if he became student president. He is an exceedingly bright student.
JOHN MCADAMS

Before burning a bridge, make sure your on the right side
CHRIS MCADAMS

Being persistent may have the opposite affect your looking for
CHRIS MCADAMS

Romance needs no occasion
CHRIS MCADAMS

The hidden lies in plain sight
CHRIS MCADAMS

We aren't telling ourselves lies; we're composing heroic narratives that tell us essential truths ab...
DAN MCADAMS

You can hold your head up high when you leave the gym. You can say you did everything you could. It ...
HEATHER MCADAMS

It's not one of those jobs where you take a particular path. The stars kind of have to line up for y...
DAN MCADAMS

It’s kinda pointless to fight for what you want when what you want continues to break your heart.
MOLLY MCADAMS

«Serve a poco lottare per ciò che desideri quando quello che desideri continua a spezzarti il cuor...
MOLLY MCADAMS

No estaba listo para irme, no estaba listo para perderla
MOLLY MCADAMS

Por favor, Dios, por favor me quedaré con el dolor, sólo no me lleves. No quiero morir. No me sepa...
MOLLY MCADAMS

Yo solamente sabía que la quería y la quería para siempre…
MOLLY MCADAMS

If I had it my way, Harper and I wouldn't be standing in this room right now, we wouldn't be pressed...
MOLLY MCADAMS

If you think acting like you don't exist isn't the hardest thing I've ever done, you're wrong. I hat...
MOLLY MCADAMS

Harper, i love you more than I could ever explain. Meeting you changed my world. Even when I thought...
MOLLY MCADAMS

... and if this is my last hour with you, I'm not going to waste another second of it.” — Chase ...
MOLLY MCADAMS

I can’t be with you. I love Brandon; I’m sorry.”

No! “Baby, don’t say that. I w...
MOLLY MCADAMS

Brother—”

“I thought we’d already decided we weren’t that, either.”

MOLLY MCADAMS

When she grabbed for the door handle, I said, quietly,

“Harper, I will love you for th...
MOLLY MCADAMS

I swear, if you touch me, I’ll go Lorena Bobbitt on you.” Lorena Bobbitt? Why does that sound—...
MOLLY MCADAMS

I hoped she understood that I was hers, completely and undeniably, forever. That if I had all of thi...
MOLLY MCADAMS

You’re such an ass, Chase. Why can’t you just leave him alone?”
“Because he’s with my...
MOLLY MCADAMS

Live, Princess, for me. I love You
MOLLY MCADAMS

It was very important to finish like this. We game everything we had.
HEATHER MCADAMS

It was great to see her finish that way. She had struggled emotionally all year. She laid it out on ...
HEATHER MCADAMS

We didn't want to end our season that way. You fight like that and come back. We did the only thing ...
HEATHER MCADAMS

We really lost it in the second half, defensively. We lost our intensity. We gave them some wide-ope...
HEATHER MCADAMS

That was just to get our intensity back, and not settle for low-percentage shots. Because of those s...
HEATHER MCADAMS

Dad, is she serious?"
John shrugged. "I argue with your Mama, I sleep on the couch and she does...
MOLLY MCADAMS

It is a chance for farm, non-farm and city kids to mingle. It is just a good event for kids. The kid...
KAREN MCADAMS

It takes a lot of courage to get out there with a 1,200-pound steer if you weigh 90 pounds. Even a l...
KAREN MCADAMS

The children take the animals in a ring and they have a judge. There will be maybe four or five clas...
KAREN MCADAMS

You're doing a good job but that one's a handful. I would not put that one in the showmanship class.
KAREN MCADAMS

It's such a thrill to do as well as we did at a national competition. It took a lot of determination...
JOSH MCADAMS

I thought I'd seen it all down in Louisiana. It's always that way, when you work a storm, you never ...
RICHARD MCADAMS

That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ide...
RACHEL TRUE

I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The s...
RACHEL BLOOM

The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time w...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
RACHEL ZOE

If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, &#...
RACHEL ZOE

I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
RACHEL STEVENS

I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think ...
RACHEL DRATCH

I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no wa...
RACHEL SKLAR

I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
RACHEL ZOE

It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can&#...
RACHEL ZOE

As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend ...
RACHEL ZOE

The constant in all the businesses I've become a part of is taking what I do and making it real ...
RACHEL ZOE

I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.
RACHEL ZOE

People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.
RACHEL ZOE

I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we ...
RACHEL ZOE

As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown bra...
RACHEL ZOE

The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sap...
RACHEL ZOE

Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much...
RACHEL ZOE

I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the ...
RACHEL ZOE

When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb...
RACHEL ZOE

I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
RACHEL ZOE

I think people should look cute all the time.
RACHEL ZOE

I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is...
RACHEL ZOE

Sexiness should not be overt. Something shapeless that drapes across your hip, hangs off the shoulde...
RACHEL ZOE

I love Fall Fashion Week because it means lots of layering, long sweaters and vintage coats.
RACHEL ZOE

I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't h...
RACHEL ZOE

I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
RACHEL ZOE

Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
RACHEL ZOE

I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
RACHEL WEISZ

The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
RACHEL WEISZ

That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as ...
RACHEL WEISZ

L.A. makes you feel ugly.
RACHEL WEISZ

It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're wri...
RACHEL WEISZ

In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Eve...
RACHEL WEISZ

If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like th...
RACHEL WEISZ

I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people w...
RACHEL WEISZ

I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.
RACHEL WEISZ

I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by th...
RACHEL WEISZ

I find Hollywood really toxic.
RACHEL WEISZ

I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what...
RACHEL WEISZ

You have your real life and then you have your work.
RACHEL WEISZ

I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are ...
RACHEL WEISZ

The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite ...
RACHEL WEISZ

It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same ...
RACHEL WEISZ

My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive aro...
RACHEL WEISZ

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; wh...
RACHEL WEISZ

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in peop...
RACHEL WEISZ

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
RACHEL WEISZ

As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've ne...
RACHEL WEISZ

I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in t...
RACHEL WEISZ

I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
RACHEL WEISZ

You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say th...
RACHEL WEISZ

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one t...
RACHEL WEISZ

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.
RACHEL WEISZ

Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.
RACHEL WARD

I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually...
RACHEL WARD

I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I ...
RACHEL WARD

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.
RACHEL WARD

All anything takes, really, is confidence.
RACHEL WARD

There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not li...
RACHEL WARD

Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and ch...
RACHEL WARD

You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fan...
RACHEL WARD

I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque po...
RACHEL WARD

It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished ...
RACHEL TUCKER

When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as ...
RACHEL TUCKER

'We Will Rock You' is one of my favorite shows. I first saw it when I was a student at the R...
RACHEL TUCKER

We lived in Manhattan, which was unbearable sometimes because it was so noisy. There were sirens bla...
RACHEL TUCKER

Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and ...
RACHEL TUCKER

I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take mysel...
RACHEL TUCKER

If I thought about it before I went on, I would have never went on. So, therefore, you don't thi...
RACHEL TUCKER

I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the pr...
RACHEL TUCKER

I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at h...
RACHEL TUCKER

I can be very ordinary looking.
RACHEL TUCKER

I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'L...
RACHEL TUCKER

We used to have front-row seats for the Grand Opera House pantomime every year, and once the dame Ma...
RACHEL TUCKER

It's such a relief to see Catholic and Protestant ministers getting on - that's so rare. And...
RACHEL TUCKER

When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and Wh...
RACHEL TUCKER

Sting is a father figure to us all.
RACHEL TUCKER

I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years ...
RACHEL TUCKER

My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric ...
RACHEL TUCKER

'The Last Ship,' which is a beautifully written piece, is about a love triangle and young me...
RACHEL TUCKER

Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
RACHEL TUCKER

I read books for exams at school, but only because I had to read them, and really didn't enjoy i...
RACHEL TUCKER

As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just ...
RACHEL TRUE

Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury...
RACHEL TRUE

So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is...
RACHEL TRUE

If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your r...
RACHEL TRUE

When you work on a movie, you just have no idea how it's going to come out; you hope it's go...
RACHEL TRUE

Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.
RACHEL TRUE

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not a...
RACHEL TRUE

I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.
RACHEL TRUE

Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously...
RACHEL TRUE

And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And i...
RACHEL TRUE

In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls ge...
RACHEL TRUE

I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
RACHEL TRUE

Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I ...
RACHEL TRUE

We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed ...
RACHEL TRUE

Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that wo...
RACHEL TRUE

I like to make collages - paper collages.
RACHEL TRUE

My mother's Puerto Rican and my father's Russian-Jewish, so we consider ourselves to be Jewr...
RACHEL TICOTIN

If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the mo...
RACHEL TICOTIN

I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy ...
RACHEL TICOTIN

Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
RACHEL STEVENS

My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
RACHEL STEVENS

I'm so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day.
RACHEL STEVENS

Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
RACHEL STEVENS

I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
RACHEL STEVENS

I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense ...
RACHEL STEVENS

I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!
RACHEL STEVENS

I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's g...
RACHEL STEVENS

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.

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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.

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