Ricci Quotes & Sayings

LIFE'S A BALANCE OF what's best to eliminate or smart to embrace, — Susan Jean Ricci

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

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. — 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

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

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

Christina Ricci is amazing, the most professional actor I think I've ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action, she's right there. — Lisa Kudrow

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

My family and my friends inspire me. — Italia Ricci

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

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

What if I start training my consciousness to know that it is a time and space traveller of unlimited proportions? — Ricci-Jane Adams

A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste. — Ruggiero Ricci

There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life. — Michelle Williams

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

I once ate McDonald's three times in one day. — 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 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

When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down. — Ruggiero 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

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

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms. — Ruggiero 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

We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society. — 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

Rather than elevating poverty to a form of righteousness, Jesus is instead calling for a revolution of imagination around the nature of what we consider true blessing. — Jamie Arpin-Ricci

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

I'm incredibly naive. — Christina Ricci

This young man is an exceptionally gifted and talented violinist ... He is a first class talent ... — Ruggiero Ricci

He thought of Darwin sleeping out on the pampas during his Beagle trip, a middle-class white kid travelling the world, the first of the backpackers. It was only afterwards, really, that he had made any sense of what he had seen. Alex wondered what, in the fullness of time, he himself would make sense of, what small, crucial detail might be lodging itself in his brain that would shake his life to its foundations. — Nino Ricci

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

I grew up doing theater when I was very young - always enjoyed it. — Italia Ricci

There is more hope in honest brokenness than in the pretense of false wholeness. — Jamie Arpin-Ricci

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

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

I try my best to stay healthy, but I have the appetite of a nine-year-old boy, so I just pay for it in workouts. — Italia Ricci

Bad weeds grow in bunches. — Roberto Ricci

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

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

Sergeant Axel Dane ordinarily opened the San Jose recruiting office at eight o'clock, but if he was a little late Corporal Kemp opened it, and Kemp was not likely to complain. Axel was not an unusual case. A hitch in the U.S. Army in the time of peace between the Spanish war and the German war had unfitted him for the cold, unordered life of a civilian. One month between hitches convinced him of that. Two hitches in the peacetime army completely unfitted him for war, and he had learned enough method to get out of it. The San Jose recruiting station proved he knew his way about. He was dallying with the youngest Ricci girl and she lived in San Jose. Kemp hadn't the time in, but he was learning the basic rule. Get along with the topkick and avoid all officers when possible. — John Steinbeck

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 I've always been interested in playing people who are judged very harshly. — Christina Ricci

It's a werewolf movie with Christina Ricci, and it was a chance to work with some good people. But playing yourself is always fairly risky because you gotta watch how you goof on yourself. — Scott Baio

We celebrate the differences among us, even that which we cannot reconcile, not in denial of the absolute, but in the gift of humility that those differences require of us. Without denying our differences, we no longer allow them to categorize or divide us. It is in the diversity that the image of God is most fully reflected in and through us. — Jamie Arpin-Ricci

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. — Christina Ricci

Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things. — Ruggiero Ricci

I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal. — Christina Ricci

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

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare. — 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

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

I've been talking to people, and I've gone to hospitals, talked to survivors, to doctors, to caregivers. I just learned that there's really no one way for somebody to experience dealing with cancer. — Italia Ricci

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

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

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself. — Ruggiero Ricci

A specialist is someone who does everything else worse. — Ruggiero 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

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 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

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

I think that androgyny is so amazing. Men's shows I can look at and say, 'I would wear that.' But there's things I see at Nina Ricci, and I'm like, 'They need to make that in men's,' or 'I want those pants.' Everything is inspiring. — Mark Indelicato

When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it. — Olivier Theyskens

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

Any obsession is dangerous. — Christina Ricci

I don't come from money. — Christina Ricci

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

I'm really open to everything. — Christina Ricci

Incarnation is good news not because it offers us a way out of the mess of this world, but because it shows us what God's love looks like here and now. — Jamie Arpin-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

He was starting to think that consciousness wasn't some lighthouse of self-knowing but merely a little cave where you made up stories about yourself, whatever it took to hide the shit and the slime, the utter mollusk you were in your deepest nature. He wondered what was down there, under the shit, what kind of bedrock he might strike. Take — Nino 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