Rachel McAdams Quotes

Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.

I didn't choose BYU, I like to think it chose me.

I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.

I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: 'Is this random, or is there something working underneath?'

I don't look for signs. But when things happen, I say, 'OK, something must be right.' Or 'OK, something must be wrong.'

I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.

I always have a strange feeling that projects choose you. It's always mysterious.

Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.

I didn't choose Paris. I like to think that the city chose me.

I didn't choose acting. The universe did.

Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean.

I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

I love the idea of 'the one' but I actually believe that there isn't a Miss Right. There are 12,000 Miss Rights out there and it's all timing.

Things tend to come when they are meant to come. I know that sounds kind of like spiritual and cheesy, but I think things come when they're meant to come.

I believe that there will be many things that happen to me in my life that I will not be able to explain. Some of those might be magic. I'm not sure.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you're connected to Spirit, or 'inspired,' if you will. When you're inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

I'm one of those people - I really feel that you can't go lookin' for love, love will come to you.

The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.

I think we plan everything, somehow, on another level.

Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you.

I think that things happen for a reason.

I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance.