Christina Ricci Quotes & Sayings

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

My mom knows when something is real and something is not. — Christina Ricci

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. — Christina Ricci

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

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. — Christina Ricci

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

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. — Christina Ricci

I don't think I'm an outsider at all. — Christina Ricci

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

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

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. — Christina Ricci

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. — Christina Ricci

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

I've been to therapists my whole life. — Christina Ricci

People are giving me more respect. — Christina Ricci

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. — Christina Ricci

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

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

I don't have life rage anymore. — Christina Ricci

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Christina Ricci

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. — Christina Ricci

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

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

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. — Christina Ricci

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

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

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

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

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. — Christina Ricci

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? — Christina Ricci

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. — Christina Ricci

I've always been a really ambitious person. — Christina Ricci

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

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

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces. — Christina Ricci

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. — Christina Ricci

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.' — Christina Ricci

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. — Christina Ricci

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

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

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

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

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. — Christina Ricci

I guess I'm a workaholic! — Christina Ricci

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

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

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. — Christina Ricci

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

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

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. — Christina Ricci

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. — Christina Ricci

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 — Christina Ricci

I'm very insecure. — Christina Ricci

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination. — Christina Ricci

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

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 ... — Christina Ricci

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. — Christina Ricci

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. — Christina Ricci

Any obsession is dangerous. — Christina Ricci

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. — Christina Ricci

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. — Christina Ricci

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

I'm a lazy, lazy girl. — Christina Ricci

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

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

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

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. — Christina Ricci

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

As soon as I wake up, I check my phone, hoping there's a message from you. — Christina Ricci

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Christina Ricci

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

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. — Christina Ricci

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. — Christina Ricci

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

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

I've never been to a race car race before. — Christina Ricci

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

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. — Christina Ricci

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. — Christina Ricci

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. — Christina Ricci

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. — Christina Ricci

I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified. — Christina Ricci

We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society. — Christina Ricci

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. — Christina Ricci

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

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

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. — Christina Ricci

I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl. — Christina Ricci