Rachel McAdams Quotes

I don't honestly think people know what acting is.

As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying to just find out where everything comes from.

What's exciting about theatre is observing human behaviour. You're constantly making judgments about body language, the physical, the emotional, the intellectual.

You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.

Actors tell stories and we play different characters, and not all of them are healthy.

That is the fun of being an actor. You play all different kinds of people.

I've done so much drama on television that it's very hard to sit down and watch other actors work. I find my interest is more in the real world.

I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.

I know that I've had a very fortunate life, but also I think my job as an actor is to connect emotionally to human beings.

As an actor, I have to watch people and observe their behaviors - this is how I create characters.

The reason I love acting is because I feel like acting is all about listening.

When you're an actor, you show up and it's wonderful because you're in the world of make-believe.

Acting is all about likability.

Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone.

What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.

That's one of the things of being an actor. You have to push any knowledge of any future, at all, out of your mind. You never know what's going to happen where.

The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?

At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.

I did not think I had what it took to be an actor, because most of the actors that I encountered were people who were very narcissistic and I thought since I lacked narcissism to become an actor because that's what it took. It was more of a social experiment for me to walk in the shoes of other people that I found interesting.

I'm a real people person and I'm very sensitive, and I've just noticed how other actors that I've worked with, as an actor, take direction from people.

It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him.

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

To really get to know people and discover humanity, which is what I truly think writers and actors do, you've got to be interested in other human beings, you have to be interested in humanity in general, and you have to do some discovering of humanity and different people.

For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.

Actors just need each other to act together.