Quotes by

Rachel McAdams

I love auditioning. Since The Notebook and Wedding Crashers, I dont have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I dont audition. What if they hate what I want to do? – Rachel McAdams

I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for Wedding Crashers, and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives. – Rachel McAdams

Im a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. Ive discovered as Ive grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when youre a kid. It isnt just a straightforward fairytale. – Rachel McAdams

I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think its really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply. – Rachel McAdams

I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Torontos my home. – Rachel McAdams

Im 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. – 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 movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Cravens Red Eye. I dont think theyre linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day. – Rachel McAdams

I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasnt quite doing it for me. I wasnt totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating. – Rachel McAdams

Im not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe! – Rachel McAdams

The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like. – Rachel McAdams

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food. – Rachel McAdams

My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world. – Rachel McAdams