Christina Hendricks Firefly Quotes

I guess my mom raised me right. She was very celebratory of her body. I never heard her once say, 'I feel fat.' ~ Christina Hendricks

I just thought I would work in a hair salon and do community theater. ~ Christina Hendricks

When the attention started to be about my figure, I was surprised, because it wasn't something I was focused on. ~ Christina Hendricks

My mother never said to lose weight. Diets were never a big deal. My mom was always beautiful and voluptuous and curvy, and I always thought she was gorgeous. ~ Christina Hendricks

I love my body as it is. People in the industry have been telling me to lose weight for years but I like the way I look. I give credit to my mom for helping me feel good about my appearance - for making sure I never felt embarrassed about my body, because she was never worried about looking too big. ~ Christina Hendricks

I like to look for gifts throughout the year. If I find the perfect item for someone, I put it in my "gift closet" and keep it for the next holiday. But I often get too excited and just give it to them before! ~ Christina Hendricks

Getting to wear beautiful fashion is the most fun part of the job that has nothing to do with the job. ~ Christina Hendricks

I really do love being outdoors - I mean, you'd never think it in my high heels and pencil skirt! But I really do miss the smell of hay and farms, and I like milking a cow. ~ Christina Hendricks

When you're doing voice work, you're in a bubble where you just think about the story and the words. They record you on video while you're doing the voice work, so they capture how your face is moving and the gestures you make. ~ Christina Hendricks

I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me. ~ Christina Hendricks

I'm constantly saying that I have bad hair days when I'm in New York. It's so hard. I've been lucky enough to jump immediately into a car, head straight to the location, and stay in the air-conditioning. ~ Christina Hendricks

Any woman who is currently with a man is with him partly because she loves the way he smells. ~ Christina Hendricks

I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, 'Oh, I'm running around town and people are taking my picture', while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed. ~ Christina Hendricks

I like a man with a nice, self-deprecating sense of humour. ~ Christina Hendricks

I've been telling everyone for weeks now about how I get to play Lois Lane. It's a big deal. There are a few characters throughout your life which everyone knows and this is one of them. I can't wait. ~ Christina Hendricks

I'm just looking for material that excites me more than any specific genre. It just needs to be good. ~ Christina Hendricks

Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous; you get really self-conscious. ~ Christina Hendricks

I definitely am drawn to deeper reds and wine colors for lips and even cheeks during the holiday. ~ Christina Hendricks

I love cocktails. My specialty drink is a gimlet with a little egg white in it so it gets frothy. I really like rose water - sometimes I'll add it to champagne. ~ Christina Hendricks

Oftentimes when I do a project I do get influenced by the wardrobe. I certainly learned a lot from Mad Men and from Janie (Bryant) in particular. She's just so fabulous. ~ Christina Hendricks

I have faced rejection in this business because of my appearance, but that has only made me stronger and more determined. ~ Christina Hendricks

My husband says, 'What Joan walk? You've always walked that way!' ~ Christina Hendricks

As women, we feel we can't ask for things. There's been a lot of research done recently and, more often than not, if a woman goes in to ask for a raise, she'll get it. But she's thinking, 'Do I deserve it? I've got to give a list of why I deserve it.' Whereas a man will just go in and ask for a raise. It's so scary. ~ Christina Hendricks

To be honest, the real reason I did 'Drive' was because of Nicolas Winding Refn, the director. ~ Christina Hendricks

I would hope that people didn't think I was anything like Joan! It's very hard for me because Joan says such cruel things all the time. It sort of makes me cringe every time I read them because I think, 'Who could be so horrible?' To be able to deliver those lines and do them with a coolness, yet still make her likable, is a bit of a challenge. ~ Christina Hendricks

It is so exciting to get a phone call saying you're going to be working on a Disney film. ~ Christina Hendricks

I love anything that's sort of surreal and with fantasy. ~ Christina Hendricks

If I get any private time in my trailer, all of a sudden I'm doing sit-ups and push-ups. ~ Christina Hendricks

In the beginning, it was odd to have so much attention brought to my body type. I thought, 'Uh-oh, brace yourself.' But everyone has been so positive. During the first season, a woman came up to me at dinner and said, 'I just want to thank you u2014 watching you has made me proud of my body.' I thought, What an amazing thing for someone to say! To make anyone feel good about themselves makes me feel good. ~ Christina Hendricks

I think Joan's advice would be: always know more than anyone else, always be discreet as possible. And never cry at work. ~ Christina Hendricks

I'm not quite at the point where I feel the need to wear disguises in public. ~ Christina Hendricks

Some people are way less creative than you wish they were. ~ Christina Hendricks

I auditioned for so many things - cops, lawyers, doctors and things but they were like, "She just seems too sweet. I don't see that hard side of her." ~ Christina Hendricks

I was the nerdy one. I always played those kind of characters until Mad Men. ~ Christina Hendricks

We're really spoiled on 'Mad Men.' Lots of television actors use the down season to go out and get creatively fulfilled, but I feel the opposite. Anything else I get to do is just icing. ~ Christina Hendricks

If my legs are showing, the makeup artist adds a tiny amount of foundation to body lotion and rubs it in. ~ Christina Hendricks

I know plenty of people who don't have children. And I also get a lot of people who say, 'Thank you for speaking out; my family don't understand why I don't want kids.' ~ Christina Hendricks

Back when I was modeling, the first time I went to Italy, I was having cappuccinos every day, and I gained 15 pounds. And I felt gorgeous! I would take my clothes off in front of the mirror and be like, 'Oh, I look like a woman.' And I felt beautiful, and I never tried to lose it, 'cause I loved it. ~ Christina Hendricks

I adore the incredibly tight clothing! My own wardobe's changed - I've streamlined a little bit and definitely learnt from Joan's sleekiness and tailoring. ~ Christina Hendricks

I sort of feel like 'Mad Men' fans are like sci-fi fans because they are very, very devoted, and they're very loyal and very excited about it. ~ Christina Hendricks

I'm an ambassador for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and one of the children, his wish was to go to the Emmys, so he's going to be my date, along with my husband, and my dad and his girlfriend. So we're going to have a really fun night and it's going to be really exciting. I'm really excited for him to experience that. ~ Christina Hendricks

It's a tough business. To my parents or to their friends, I was not a success, but to me I was a huge success. I was having a blast. I was working on shows I loved, I was working with actors I loved, and I was making a living as an actor. And I loved every second of it. ~ Christina Hendricks

The way we dress on 'Mad Men' is so associated with old photographs, with people's parents and grandparents. ~ Christina Hendricks

Everyone assumes we're always going to have a cocktail and a cigarette in hand. Fans expect us all to be dressed up all the time. They always say to me, 'You look so young. You don't seem as tall!' ~ Christina Hendricks

I'm super, it's like my favourite meal and a birthday blowjob from Christina Hendricks in here. ~ David Louden

I'm not looking for a series. I love TV. I love developing characters over a long amount of time. I think for an actor it gives you so much material and every season it gives more background and interest and richness. So I would definitely do another series. I'm just waiting for the right thing to come along. ~ Christina Hendricks