Rachel McAdams Quotes

I'm a real voyeur.

Everyone is a bit nosey. It's like if you walk down the street and someone has their blinds open, you look in.

Don't think I am going to let Bob Hoskins take all his clothes off and me not take a look? I just had a quick look up and down, like you would.

At night, I love to look in the houses. When I was little, I did that much more, when I was so bored. It might be awful in those houses, of course, but I still speculate about them in a romantic way. It's the same if you are famous: you are in the light, and most people have fantasies about you, but these fantasies have nothing to do with reality.

I'm convinced we all are voyeurs. It's part of the detective thing. We want to know secrets and we want to know what goes on behind those windows. And not in a way that we would use to hurt anyone. There's an entertainment value to it, but at the same time we want to know: What do humans do? Do they do the same things as I do? It's a gaining of some sort of knowledge, I think.

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

I'm a big people-watcher. I love it. But I feel bad about it, because I always get caught!

Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.

There's a very real possibility in this industry of going out and leading your life and then going home and being a voyeur of your own life. You can literally go watch yourself - where you went last night, what you did, what the things that people presuppose about you. It's kind of crazy.

I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.

I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages.

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

I don't know whether I have ideas all the time. I think I'm curious about things all the time; I think I'm always curious, and I think I'm always interested in whatever passes by, and I know I tend to think about things, and I tend to talk about things, and sometimes that takes root and gives me something to chase.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

I watch people from the top of buses who don't know they're being watched. It's quite fascinating.

I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible would be it, no question. I'm fascinated by human behavior; observing people and seeing how much story gets told without a lot of dialogue, and how much our brain fills in.

In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.

It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot.

It's fun to peek into other people's worlds and see how they go about doing things.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.

I can understand being in such a public place and having your intimate private life examined.

I've always been kind of a voyeur.

People want to see other's secrets and get a peek into their lives.