Christina Ricci Quotations

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

We have so much pride in welcoming these passengers onto the plane, and they have so much pride in travel. It's something that I definitely always remember, when I'm playing a scene on the plane, just to imbue everything with that sense of excitement.

It's fun to be sarcastic, but now I'm able to express myself in a way that's much more sincere.

I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl.

Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in.

I once ate McDonald's three times in one day.

I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.

I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.

Most people don't walk around knowing what other people think about them, and I don't think it's healthy to know what faceless strangers who you'll never meet say about you.

We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up into such huge issues in our minds, that we might as well have a facial deformity. It keeps us from really going out there and living our lives, and forgetting about hating yourself and just experiencing the world around you.

I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is getting a bad rap or being unfairly picked on, I will stand up for them, absolutely.

We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.

I'm a TV addict, and I personally really enjoy reality TV.

I think that the best career that someone can have is one that's reflective of their personal tastes.

I want a Mini-Cooper because it's fuel efficient, emissions efficient and all that stuff. It's small and better for the environment. I think that will be my next car.

This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.

I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.

I think people who suffer from depression, unless it's post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life.

I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am.

I think my anorexia was to do with being a teenager, not being in films.

I've never been to a race car race before.

Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.

W called me 'the young Delta Burke.' It's so silly. I weigh 105 pounds and wear a size two, but for some reason I'm a heavyweight.

Nobody's kissing my ass, unfortunately. I could use a little. But then again, my personality isn't conducive to butt-kissing.

I'm always in bed by 11 or 12 and people laugh all the time - they want me to hang out until two in the morning, but n-n-no, I need my nine hours.

I hate sitting around and talking about the emotional background of a character. She is a storybook character, she's not real. That means you have so much more freedom, in that you don't have to make anything she does believable or make people believe her choices in the story.

I always knew that I was kind of bored; the regular life of a child didn't fit me.

My mom knows when something is real and something is not.

I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal.

I could easily exist on less money, but I like the way I live now.

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

Now my body is really womanly - a little too much so. It's something I can fall back on. When I don't know what else to do, I stick my chest out.

I liked the idea that this character is sort of like a fairy tale, a princess-y character, very one-sided, no emotional depth,

I'm merely trying to be something akin to a nice, kind, good actress.

I really wanted to work with Tim, ... I've been a big fan of Tim's for a long time.

I think I've had a fairly meandering career. Because I did start so young, I think that I've always chosen my parts based on what's interesting to me and what I think would be challenging or fun, or someone I've always wanted to work with or a place I've always wanted to work in or a topic.

I loved the idea of doing something that has this misconception about what stewardesses were. And, I also love the idea that these girls were navigating a blatantly misogynistic society, with the girdle checks and make-up checks.

We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society.

I don't have life rage anymore.

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

I don't really need a lot of help from a director.

If anyone ever saw me dance, they'd have trouble taking me seriously.

I'm one of those people who loves to fly.

As a kid, I was told to talk as much as possible.

This life that I've led has been really well suited for me.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

When I'm acting in a film that I'm not producing, I stay to myself.

When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.

The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.

I'm so glad I'm not 20 years old anymore. I was in a hurricane. I'm a lot calmer now. I don't cause destruction for myself and others everywhere I go.

If I hadn't gone into acting, I would have been one of those weird runaways on Hollywood Boulevard. No, it'd be uglier. I'd probably be dead.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me

I've been looking to do TV for a while. I've always done guest starring stuff. I've done a couple of multi-episode arcs, and I've always loved the experience.

I would love to fly privately, but unfortunately, I don't. I don't summer anywhere either.

I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera. Unlike a lot of actors, I think that's the thing that I'm not so comfortable with.

I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors. I've also been looking for the consistency of work that TV provides for you. And, I always thought it would be really interesting to live with a character for months, if not years.

I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal. And to me that's something I'm working on now. I'm not really that difficult or complex a person, so it's interesting to me that it's just so much harder for me to play an everygirl.

Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face, but those that fall from the heart and cover the soul.

I’m not going to let my insecurities keep me from having a good time. I think that if you don’t loose your self-consciousness, you can’t really be present in a situation. For example, if you’re at The Louvre, but you’re thinking about how much you hate your jeans, you’re not really at The Louvre. So in your memory, when you look back, you’re always going to be like, “I was wearing those jeans I hated”. And you’re not going to remember anything else.

Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.

I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.

For years, I hated myself. I covered the mirrors in my house. I literally couldn't have a mirror in my room.

I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous.

You won't see me in a better mood than 4:00 in the morning on my way to work.

I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.

I'm trying to just go with the flow and learn from the people around me.

I'm incredibly naive.

As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.'

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

I think the thing that I always try to do - because it piques my interest - is to play really different parts all the time.

I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.

I think I've always been interested in playing people who are judged very harshly.

I take Wellbutrin because I'm afraid to go into stores. I'm afraid people are going to yell at me.

I guess I'm a workaholic!

I don't think I'm an outsider at all.

Now my body is really womanly - a little too much so. It's someting I can fall back on. When I don't know what else to do, I stick my chest out.

People are giving me more respect.

A director should cast a person who fits into their script.

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

My sister discovered the Beatles when she was about 11 and I'm four years younger. So we had nothing but Beatles paraphernalia. Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album.

What you feel is important may not be what the director feels is important.

All the roles are for boys. The girls' roles are either small or all the same. There's just nothing interesting.

When you're doing something where you really like the material, it doesn't matter what medium it's in.

I'm really open to everything.

I can't think of anything that I turned down that became big and successful.

I like to do things sort of intuitively, I think.

You have to excuse me because I AM a teenager, so I'm allowed to sound illiterate and make stupid comments like 'I'm not into hard-core feminism.'

As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.

To be honest, I don't usually do very much research, especially if I'm working with a director who also wrote the screenplay. They've usually done a tonne of research. And they'll tell you about it from their perspective which is better than doing your own research...

It's so normal for a teenager to dress in black -- and be real unhappy and stay in your room and say sarcastic things. How could something so normal be considered morbid?

I really liked it. It was awesome - my first tabloid story. If you're going to have a tabloid story written about you, it might as well be with Johnny Depp.

It's Aslan, the lion from The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. It's a symbol of my hellish childhood. I struggled through my oppressive teenage years and when I turned 18 I escaped. Like Aslan I was finally free.

I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.

You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.

I think I am naturally attracted to things that are a little bit out of this world.

I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.