Rachel McAdams Quotes

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

I find it somewhat liberating to jump, to dive into things that are the opposite of me.

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.

I'm glad I lived such a full life before I settled down into a family because I got to enjoy it and get it out of my system.

I moved to Los Angeles when I was about 20, all by myself. It was exciting. I had this moment when I felt like I needed to put on my big-boy pants and just make that leap to see what would happen.

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?

I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

I love going out of my comfort zone - I live to go out of my comfort zone.

'On the Road' completely changed the way I looked at what you could do with your life.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.

Always trying new things is always more fun, and it can be scary, but it's always more fun in the end.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.

Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.

I love when I am outside my comfort zone.

But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.

If I hold back any part of me, I suppress that much energy and potential. The question I want to ask myself now is not what behavior is good or bad, but in what ways would I express myself with greater energy if I didn't hold back.