I prefer to be a villainess. There’s something a bit more delicious about their wickedness. Rachel McAdams Read Quote
You want people to buy you as just about anything. So if they think that you’re one thing, it’s hard to slip into, you know, all these other things. Rachel McAdams Read Quote
I think there’s something really powerful and refreshing about a woman who is unapologetic. Rachel McAdams Read Quote
With any project I work on – not just ‘True Detective’ – I don’t feel the need just to play a strong woman. I don’t want the audience to say, ‘Oh, she was so strong.’ I want to play characters that are flawed and interesting. Rachel McAdams Read Quote
I don’t really want to repeat myself. For the most part, I always want to be doing something new. But there aren’t a lot of gritty roles out there for women, and they are so fun to play, everyone wants them. Rachel McAdams Read Quote
I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children’s theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’ The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in ‘Agamemnon’ and I was like, ‘OK, this is amazing.’ Rachel McAdams Read Quote
It’s always disappointing when your work is not received as you hope it would be. Rachel McAdams Read Quote
I’m from a very close-knit family, and there was something very… I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents. Rachel McAdams Read Quote
I’ve really gotten to play a lot of different things, starting with ‘Southpaw.’ For ‘Spotlight,’ I got to play this amazing journalist, Sacha Pfeiffer, who worked at the ‘Boston Globe’ when they broke the story about the sex scandal in the Catholic Church. Rachel McAdams Read Quote
My mother’s parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult. Rachel McAdams Read Quote
