Rachel McAdams Quotes

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

I feel like everything will be a letdown after 'You're The Worst.' It was such a great experience.

There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

There are times when you feel like you give a great effort, you have prepared properly, and you got less than what you wanted. So on the one hand, you should feel really good about that and just let the results be what they are. On the other hand, you can't be happy with it when you finished 19th.

The satisfaction that I get from doing what I do is not what I thought. I thought it would be that I'd feel like a star, I'd feel important. But I don't.

I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good.

When the only thing you look forward to in life is lunch, you know you have had your just desserts, and it is time to call it a day.

You know you can't satisfy anybody.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time.

Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.

I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.

At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.

I can cook, but I also want everything to look beautiful on the plate - then I get upset when people eat it. Everyone just tears through it, and that makes me sad. It's not a rewarding experience for me to cook.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

My life has been nothing but a failure.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.