Rachel McAdams Quotes

I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

I think that's okay and that is part of growing up and that is good, to learn that the world isn't always your oyster or isn't everybody's oyster.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.

The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you.

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

As you get older, life gets more complicated.

My childhood memories are amazing; I had freedom in every way - but I see everything from a different perspective now that I live outside.

Getting trouble is always a problem when you are young and in a soap.

When I was little, the world was simple. But as a young adult, I'm learning that as we have to make choices - education, career, lifestyle - life gets more and more complicated.

Life isn't like a Full House episode. There isn't going to be an easy out to every conflict. There is no milkman, paperboy, or evening TV. There are good moments and bad moments and not everything will tie together nicely in the end. But that's life, and I think I'm finally starting to get it.

Grown-ups always say that things are complicated.

People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it, and I know very well that I will not, and would not if I had a dozen lives.

Realism is important in foreign policy. You have to be realistic about what you can achieve, and about the pitfalls, and problems along the way, of which there are plenty. Nothing is easy. It's always rough.

Miles: Well, things are kind of complicated right now. When you’re a grown-up, you’ll understand. Jonah: I don’t want to be a grown-up. Miles: Why not? Jonah: Because grown-ups always say that things are complicated.

For 'Prom,' if I had missed high school, I don't think it would come off as real.

Absolutely I view life from a different perspective than I did in my past. It's rewarding, to me, because it actually lets me know that I am growing up.

I'm no longer in my 20s, and I think, by default, the rose-colored glasses are off.

Ultimately, everyone's life is complex, and it's good to show that.

Real life happens. Sometimes it's messy. Sometimes it doesn't work.

For me, growing up felt like a roller coaster ride at times, but looking back, I don't think that it was such a bad thing. It was all part of the excitement of being young.

High school is something that we have to deal with. It's not a glorified fluffy, fun, prince-and-princess kind of time.

When you're younger, love is this magic thing where the heavens open up. You live 40 years past that, you realize sometimes the heavens close down.

I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.

I'm definitely not eager to grow up, but I do like some adult stuff.