Rachel McAdams had a figure skating coach that told her she was too smart for skating:

“My skating coach always said to me, ‘You’d be a lot better if you were dumb,’ because you can’t let your brain get in the way. And I think it’s the same thing with acting – you have to do a lot of thinking before you get there, but once you do, you have to give yourself over to the universe and not think too much.”

Nice coach!  Despite not being dumb enough for the sport, her stage fright is the real reason she never pursued a skating career despite lessons from a young girl into her teens:

“I loved figure skating but I was way too nervous,” she is quoted as saying. “I would often suffer from stage fright. I don’t get it on stage, I have it on the ice. It’s weird because I rarely forget my lines but I would forget my routine. My knees would knock together and I would just get super nervous.”

How does she not get nervous being on a set full of lots of strangers watching you as you act?

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