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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Any obsession is dangerous.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 don't come from money.

I won't swim in a pool by myself, because I think that somehow a little magic door is going to open up and let a shark out

I think reincarnation is possible. Hopefully, we all get recycled.

I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break.

I mean, I don't like anyone who likes themselves too much.

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.

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.

I mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.

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.

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

I tend to fight for something that I believe in.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a horrible way to feel better. But there are two parts of your brain - one that really wants to destroy the other. & sometimes the idea of self-destruction is very romantic. I got over that.

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.

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

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

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

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

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

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 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 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?

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...

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

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 like to do things sort of intuitively, I think.

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

I'm really open to everything.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

People are giving me more respect.

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.

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

I guess I'm a workaholic!

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

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

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

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

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

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

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

I'm incredibly naive.

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

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.