I don’t really want to repeat myself. For the most part, I always want to be doing something new. But there aren’t a lot of gritty roles out there for women, and they are so fun to play, everyone wants them. – 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
If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone’s eye out, I would laugh. And then I’d say, ‘I’m sorry, I really do feel bad,’ but then I’m on the floor rolling. – Rachel McAdams
It’s often out of my own insecurity. If I’m picky, it’s for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I’m not connecting to something, then I’m not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that’s really embarrassing. – Rachel McAdams
With any project I work on – not just ‘True Detective’ – I don’t feel the need just to play a strong woman. I don’t want the audience to say, ‘Oh, she was so strong.’ I want to play characters that are flawed and interesting. – Rachel McAdams
I prefer to be a villainess. There’s something a bit more delicious about their wickedness. – Rachel McAdams
You want people to buy you as just about anything. So if they think that you’re one thing, it’s hard to slip into, you know, all these other 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 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 watched a lot of soap operas like ‘General Hospital’ and ‘Days Of Our Lives.’ When it came to movies, my parents were quite strict. They would watch ‘Flash Dance’ but wouldn’t let us see the whole film because Jennifer Beals’ character was a stripper. It was so funny when I finally saw the whole film. I thought she was a ballerina! – Rachel McAdams
Sure, I got lost, which is an actor’s worst nightmare. But it is a gift as well, because great things come out of being lost and unsure, especially if you have a controlling side or a perfectionist side, which plenty of us do. – Rachel McAdams
I’m a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. 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. – Rachel McAdams
I was just finishing up ‘Spotlight’ in Toronto – I finished it on a Tuesday and started ‘True Detective’ on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back. – Rachel McAdams
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. – Rachel McAdams
When you’re playing music through the streets of London at 2 o’clock in the morning, there’s something so cool and magical about that. It takes you to a special place very quickly. – 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