Rachel McAdams Quotes

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.

My professional life shouldn't be an influence on whether I spend time at home. My career is my whole life's blood. It's my calling.

My entire career, I've been a worker.

I work to live, not live to work, so my head's at home, not in some showbiz life.

I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.

Honestly, after about three years on a show, you're like, 'Thank you very much for giving me a step up. Now can I go do movies?'

I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.

I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now.

Career is a mindset. The wrong mindset. Career is linear. Especially when you are trapped in the TV or film world. The next thing you do has always got to be bigger, or it is perceived as a failure.

I don't want only a career.

I think you can have your career and still bring to your family something very, very special. There are some people who are born mothers, who don't want to work and just want to stay at home, and that's fantastic, but for me it was something very difficult.

You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.

What I want out of my career is just to work.

Long-term career aspirations encompass emotional and intellectual impact of work on society.

Ultimately, I want to have a good career and do interesting work.

Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.

In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.

As much as I would love to do roles in big movies and am keen to establish myself in the industry. I don't want to sacrifice things that I really enjoy, like spending time with my family and friends.

Though decisions regarding work/life balance are important and vary widely from person to person, it may not be wise in the long run to optimize for doing the bare minimum at work.

Oh, I definitely want to direct. I have young children. My job is already big enough, and I imagine it will be even more so as a director, and I don't want to miss out on them growing up. I'm going to wait until they're a bit older before I leap into that seat.

I wanted to do something where I could hang my hat.

You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.

I want time for my career, my kids, and my partner.

I've never been that career conscious.