Rachel McAdams
Related LAURA DERN I've always been a big fan of Rachel McAdams. I saw her for the first time in 'Mean Girls,&#... CASSI THOMSON MAYER HAWTHORNE When I was little, I didn't know you got paid for acting. My parents put the money in the bank f... CHELAN SIMMONS I started LearnVest with a tiny savings account where I paid designers, technologists, and even bart... ALEXA VON TOBEL I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that... KAT DENNINGS JESS GLYNNE KURT COBAIN NENEH CHERRY I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set. VICTORIA PRATT I've always been a bit of a lost soul, and I think that goes back to me being adopted and not kn... FINN JONES Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my go... DREW BREES GARY JOHNSON DANIEL RADCLIFFE HARUKI MURAKAMI I have a different relationship with Chucky because he's been on top of my bookshelf in the corn... FIONA DOURIF The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, becau... TREVOR NUNN LISA SNOWDON TOM BRADY I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as ... MAMIE GUMMER My parents always say I have really good legs. I've worked really hard for them. They always ins... SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG MARY LAMBERT I've always been really into action movies. Since I was little, that was my favorite type of fil... AUSTIN BUTLER DOLLY PARTON STEPHEN DUNN EMILIA FOX I was brought up with a lot of love in my family, and I've always been supported. My family has ... ERIK HASSLE ROB MACHADO I like to accessorise shirts with a little ribbon tied round my collar or a country style ascot. I&#... JESSICA BROWN FINDLAY I wasn't really taught about the value of money. I just learnt it as I grew up, but I do remembe... LAURA TROTT I was an active little kid and I always listened to exciting music. My dad was into Hendrix. I was i... JOSH MORGAN When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go t... HIROKO SAKAI ANI DIFRANCO MICHAEL JACKSON I've never taken vocal lessons. My early trumpet training and a fortunate talent for singing has... RONNIE JAMES DIO I'm not a very good financing person. I don't even know how much money I have in my bank acc... MARJANE SATRAPI TORI KELLY MAEVE BINCHY TERRY WOGAN My whole life I've actually been training to be a stunt man without realising it. I've alway... STEVE TRUGLIA Throughout my entire life, I've always been a captain. I was the captain of my high school team.... DANIEL CORMIER Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so ... DANNY PUDI HUNTER HAYES Even when I was modelling, I never had a mom sitting on my head and a bunch of people waiting on me.... MALAIKA ARORA KHAN YARA SHAHIDI One of the hard things in my life has been balancing my education with my acting career, because I&#... ANNA POPPLEWELL ELLIE GOULDING ZOSIA MAMET I've always had the greatest respect for and listened to both my father and my mother. I've ... NEYMAR MARA WILSON ARCHIE PANJABI I've been through periods where I haven't worked and would have paid someone to give me a jo... RACHEL SKARSTEN MANDY MOORE I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I wr... NEIL DIAMOND THOM TILLIS My parents are divorced, but they have and always are there for me. They've never missed a ball ... ERIC WINTER CHERIE LUNGHI MARIA SHRIVER Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the oppor... CAITY LOTZ Since my parents both worked, they hired me when I was 11 to make dinner every night. I got a quarte... TERI HATCHER KYLIE JENNER KEKE PALMER KATHLEEN EDWARDS Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that ... OLIVIA D'ABO I tried to walk it off a little bit and my balance was a little off. My vision was clear, my mind wa... HUNTER CANTWELL I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - ... LILLA CRAWFORD AL PACINO Unlike my mother, who was unashamedly delighted when I decided to become an actor, I always feel tha... MARTIN CLUNES MATTHEW QUICK STEVE AOKI GEORGE R.R. MARTIN DIANE KEATON When I was growing up I always wanted to be a waitress. My sister opened a restaurant in Mississippi... LACEY CHABERT PAUL DANO I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my litt... ALAN CUMMING BUSY PHILIPPS The little song and dance number at the end - that's me, my voice, howling out. It was a new exp... HUGH DANCY JUDITH JAMISON BEBE REXHA I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people h... B. D. WONG I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are ... DANA DELANY AMBER TAMBLYN For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, mos... RABBIT MARANVILLE STELLA YOUNG Hopefully I've given something back to darts, which has been brilliant to me. Hopefully I made i... ERIC BRISTOW CHRIS KYLE My training has always been really tough. I've always worked hard. I've always been very com... DANIEL CORMIER RYAN GOSLING I have been using Victorinox Cutlery since I was a young man, when my parents gave me a block set to... DANIEL HUMM I know a lot of parents of kid actors I've worked with have pressured them into acting, but my p... EMILY BROWNING MARCO RUBIO DAN STEVENS LAKE BELL STELLA MCCARTNEY I started singing at age three - I opened my mouth some time, singing along to the radio, and my par... RAIN PHOENIX My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that'... ALAN CUMMING RICKI-LEE COULTER I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors f... TAGG ROMNEY VERA WANG (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON
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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.”MOLLY MCADAMS Brother—”MOLLY MCADAMS When she grabbed for the door handle, I said, quietly, 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?”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?"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 RACHEL STEVENS 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 RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS
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My dad is from Nottingham - although I've only been there twice in my life, with one being when ... 
Throughout my life, I've always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I&... 
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Also I just think I've been lucky enough to have great parents, and I've had good people aro... 
I learned there were lots of realities in the world. 
And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and tre... 
My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better... 
I've always had a little bit of darkness, and I've always been someone who was grieving. I h... 
I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way... 
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I've always been a big supporter of the Surfrider Foundation. I started my own foundation, Rob M... 
I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've a... 
Well Brooke, I've always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and... 
I think, for me, the goal was never really for my EPs to go mainstream. I think the intention of the... 
When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellou... 
My parents spent an awful lot of money sending me to the best possible schools, and I came out of my... 
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Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I real... 
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I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lo... 
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my paren... 
Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they w... 
I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I st... 
I've never listed my education degree as why people should vote for me. I think the average pers... 
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One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at wri... 
Lips are kind of like my thing, and I've always been obsessed with lipstick and lip liner. I jus... 
I feel like I've been known for having long black hair, so when I took all my extensions out and... 
I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been ... 
I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Ear... 
I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been... 
I'm 36, but I still feel like a punk kid with $200 in my savings account. 
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I really don't care what people think of me. I've got my family. I've got my friends. Ye... 
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I've been all different shapes and sizes in my lifetime. I started wearing shapewear as a teenag... 
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When you're playing music through the streets of London at 2 o'clock in the morning, there&#... 
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I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think ... 
Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely. 
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