Christina Ricci Quotes

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

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

I don't come from money.

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

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

I work out.

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.

I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I don't have life rage anymore.

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.

I'm very insecure.

I've always done guest-starring stuff.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

I'm incredibly naive.

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

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.

I'm a lazy, lazy girl.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Any obsession is dangerous.

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 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.