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Rachel McAdams

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 7, 1976

I always wanted pink hair.

Rachel McAdams

I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'

Rachel McAdams

New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.

Rachel McAdams

With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.

Rachel McAdams

I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.

Rachel McAdams

I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.

Rachel McAdams

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.

Rachel McAdams

I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.

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

I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the world. But it's fine, you know, you move on to something else.

Rachel McAdams

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

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 really resourceful.

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

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

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

During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

Rachel McAdams

It's always disappointing when your work is not received as you hope it would be.

Rachel McAdams

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

Rachel McAdams

I want to pick good projects, 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. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!

Rachel McAdams