Christina Ricci Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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 guess I'm a workaholic!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

We can use the romantic relationship as a microcosmic example. Until you really understand the other person and where they're coming from and you understand yourself and how you contribute to things, you can never make that relationship better. And I think sometimes people don't understand how much these things are related.

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.

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.

We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I'm incredibly naive.

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

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 people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.

I like to do things sort of intuitively, I think.

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

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?

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.

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

If I hadn't gone into acting, I would have been one of those weird runaways on Hollywood Boulevard. No, it'd be uglier. I'd probably be dead.

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

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

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 don't come from money.

To Craig's [ Brewer] credit, I felt totally safe on the set [of Black Snake Moan] . And because I felt safe, Sam[L.Jackson] had to protect me. He got upset at all the physical stuff Craig wanted me to do. When I start doing stuff like that, all the screaming and running, I kinda go out of my head. I'm not necessarily in my own body anymore.

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

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

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

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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