Top 75 Christina Ricci Quotes

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

I think I’m better at playing difficult than I am at being normal.

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

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

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

I’m an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.

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

My mom knows when something is real and something is not.

I’ve been to therapists my whole life.

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.

I work out.

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

I eat crap.

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

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

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

I’m incredibly naive.

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

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

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

People are giving me more respect.

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

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

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.

I’m a lazy, lazy girl.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

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

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

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

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 don’t come from money.

I tend to fight for something that I believe in.

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.

Any obsession is dangerous.

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.

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’ve never been to a race car race before.

I’m really open to everything.

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.

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

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’ve always done guest-starring stuff.

I don’t have life rage anymore.

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

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

I’m immature.

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

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

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

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.

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

I’ve been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that’s obsessed with one thing, unless it’s, like, jeans, it’s very dangerous. Everyone’s obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It’s ridiculous.

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.

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

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 don’t really need a lot of help from a director.

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.

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

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

I guess I’m a workaholic!

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 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.

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

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.