Christina Ricci Quotes

I don't come from money.

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.

I am a Christian. I haven't really talked about that before. It is something very private. But I do pray and my beliefs are very important to me.

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

I think the main reason a lot of child stars don't make it is that it's hard to see someone as cute and then all of a sudden see them as having more depth.

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

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

Remember who you are. It's really okay to be who you are.

Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles; Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison just in time to regain my cool.

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

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

People are giving me more respect.

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

If I know I have everything prepared for when I get killed by a stalker, then I can go to sleep.

I'm really open to everything.

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

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

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

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

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

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

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.

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 hate the things they preach. They found a gimmick that sells. The fact that they're making money off all these teenage kids who actually believe in their message is disgusting.

Any obsession is dangerous.

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.

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

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

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

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.'

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

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.

Working in television 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. You have more time, more room, an ability to reflect on your performance and the character and how much has really been shown, and what you'd like to see. It's nice. You have more breathing room.

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

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.

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I went through a normal kind of late teens, early 20s drinking, but it was a choice I made, because I didn't think it was very good for my life.

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

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.

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

I'm not perfect-looking and I don't say the right things, I'm a little different, nothing really special, but I guess I come across as a little more real to people and that comes through on the screen. I know I look young, but with the right make-up I can look older. I definitely feel older.

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

I don't have life rage anymore.

The moment I start losing friends is the moment I start living the positive way and leave the negativity behind.

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

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.

My sister and I shared a bedroom our entire lives and I believe she discovered the Beatles when she was about 11 and I'm four years younger. So from the age of 7 until 17 we had nothing but Beatles paraphernalia in our room, even those little stuffed Beatles that went on stands that are dressed as the Sgt. Pepper band.

My brother always teases me about my forehead: 'I could eat off it!'

People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.

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

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.

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?

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

I didn't use to think anything was worth keeping private. Now I do.

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.

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

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 was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger ... secretly, in my room.

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.

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 ...

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.

I've always done guest-starring stuff.

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 that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera.

Nobody can make me smile like the way you do.

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