Rachel McAdams Quotes
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.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
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For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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I studied Morse code.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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Ronald Reagan would never go into the Oval Office without his jacket on - that's how much he revered the presidency.
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I think things through a lot, so I probably use my head more than my heart. That probably comes through in my acting.
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Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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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.
