Rachel McAdams Quotes

Selfishly I'd like to have invisibility because I've always wanted to go into other people's houses and see what they look like and just watch them interact.

It is very unreasonable of people to expect one should be at home, because one is in the house. Of all privileges, that of invisibility is the most valuable.

I can walk through a hotel lobby and watch people at the desk and see what they're doing. People don't look at me. They don't even know I'm there.

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.

I find it weird that people want to know about you.

He who is invisible sees more clearly, hears more clearly, and is better able to read the thoughts of men.

Pray be always in motion. Early in the morning go and see things; and the rest of the day go and see people. If you stay but a week at a place, and that an insignificant one, see, however, all that is to be seen there; know as many people, and get into as many houses as ever you can.

People in England are so bloody nosy.

I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!

I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars.

I'd love to be able to be invisible, because I like to eavesdrop.

I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.

That was the nice thing about the Spot: you could hear everything, but no one could see you.

Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

There are little things that get on my nerves, like people who have reading material in their powder room. When you go in someone’s house, and next to the toilet they have a huge basket of magazines, I find that repellent. I recommend against straining while reading.

I don't like to let my celebrity interfere with me living my life. I like to meet people, I like to talk to people.

I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home.

The house shows the owner.

If I stand here, I can see the Little Red Haired girl when she comes out of her house... Of course, if she sees me peeking around this tree, she'll think I'm the dumbest person in the world... But if I don't peek around the tree, I'll never see her... Which means I probably AM the dumbest person in the world... which explains why I'm standing in a batch of poison oak.

All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in peace, and the next minute there they are, crowding around you in their party hats, tooting their paper whistles in your face and insisting you get up and join in the knees-up.

Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes.Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention.

For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time. And good training, which we were lucky to have. And I think that's what people are curious about - other people, and what they're like.

Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.

I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.