Rachel McAdams Quotes

Leap and grow your wings on the way down

Do what you feel called to do, but also be prepared to accept that you don't necessarily know what you're going to learn. Be willing to be surprised by forces beyond your control, and realize that a major learning on the journey is the art of surrender.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

I think change is good because it teaches you that it's nothing to be frightened of.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

It's important that people are open. Some people say, 'I'm going to be a doctor,' and they're a really good doctor. But for the rest of us, it's a big question mark. Just giving yourself a break, letting yourself try new things, and when something doesn't work out, moving along... it's all we can really do.

It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.

I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

I always want to keep challenging myself to do something that I don't even have the foresight to know what it's going to be.

The project you are most scared to do is the one that holds your greatest growth.

My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed; to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you; to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people.

I'll keep doing the things I don't know if I'm good enough to do.

I think that feeling of being thrown into the deep end and doing something you never thought you would accomplish is really powerful.

What I've found is that every time you have that uncertainty, if you face it, walk through it, you grow as an individual and gain confidence.

My life and career have been a big improvisation.

The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

You can't fly unless you let yourself fall

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself.

Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig inside yourself to find the courage and resources to deal with what may lie ahead, and to succeed.

When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

I would like to do theatre because it scares me, and I think you should do things that scare you.