Rachel McAdams Quotes

It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun - I love changing up my hair.

Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.

You have to constantly redefine who you are.

I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.

We live in an era of reinvention: Madonna and everybody desperately trying to change their persona.

Fashion is a way to transform yourself. By choosing your own silhouette and shape, you can constantly change who you are.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

I'm like Madonna: I keep reinventing myself.

I learned a lot about self-reinvention. How you can be born Milton Sternberg in the Bronx and then become Monroe Stahr in Hollywood.

I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for a while.

I change every day. I'm still changing.

I was a massive fan of Amy Winehouse growing up. I decided it would be a good idea to become Amy Winehouse with the beehive and ballet shoes. Six months into that, I looked into the mirror and decided I'd better be Mia.

I'm always changing my style.

With ritual, I punctuate my days till they no longer belong to who I am today but to who I'll be when I look back in days and years to come.

Camp is like this set-apart world where people go to try to change who they are, and yet change is really scary.

I probably don't conform to most people's idea of a fashion editor.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

But I miss the woman I was, even as I learn to accept the new creature I’ve become.

I really enjoyed being a blonde. Men were more friendly and flirtatious. My face looked more worldly. It took the innocence away. It could be the new me.

Gaga and Stefani are my nicknames. I guess when people meet me for the first time and call me Stefani, it bothers me. Because it's something that's reserved for only the people who are closest to me. It's not because I don't like my given name; it's that I became somebody else. I became somebody else for a reason, you know. This is part of what my message is - you can become whoever you want to be, to escape your past.

Tattoos to me are the outward symbol of the inward change within my soul.

I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence.

I think part of growing up is not actually finding a fixed idea of who you are, but rather being like, "Oh, wait. I'm different all the time. I'm going to change every second and grow and be fluid." And that's okay.

It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.