Christina Ricci's Quotes

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

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

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

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

I was really bored and unhappy in school, and I used to act out and do horrible things.

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

I work out.

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

I'm a lazy, lazy girl.

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

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

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

I'm immature.

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

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

I'm really open to everything.

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

I'm very insecure.

I've always been a really ambitious person.

I've always done guest-starring stuff.

I've been to therapists my whole life.

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

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

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

My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling.

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

People are giving me more respect.

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

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

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

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

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

Well, I think I've had a fairly meandering career.

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

Well, it's difficult to fall in love with a character when you just read the pilot. You don't really know who the character is.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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 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.

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'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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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'm incredibly naive.

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

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

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 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.

Any obsession is dangerous.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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