Rachel McAdams Quotes
The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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On 'Rogue One,' we had these sets with tiny little buttons that would light up when you pressed them, and screens full of graphics, and it really felt like you were driving a spaceship. The level of detail; you'll be two meters away from where the action is, but there'll be a little detail there just in case the camera catches it.
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If I'm elected president, let me tell you about my first day in office. The first thing I intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive action taken by Barack Obama.
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My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
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If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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Do not listen to the rhetoric from campaigns, but rather, hold everyone of us accountable, hold me accountable and every other candidate accountable to be a consistent conservative.
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For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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Kelly Clarkson definitely reminds me of Motown. She's pop, but she's also very, very soulful.
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Being around Lily Tomlin has been great, how she treats people, how she handles herself, how she goes about interpreting her character or deciding how the comedy should work.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
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We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.
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I gained this new sense of control over my love life because when I called myself a 'man repeller,' you assumed that being single is my choice. I'm man-repelling because that's how I want to dress. I'm not single because no men like me. I'm single because I choose fashion over a relationship.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
