Christina Ricci Quotes

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

I tend to fight for something that I believe in.

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

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

I've never been to a race car race before.

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

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

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

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

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

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

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

I guess I'm a workaholic!

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

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

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...

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

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

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

People are giving me more respect.

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

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

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

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

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 incredibly naive.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I don't have life rage anymore.

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.

Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in.

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

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.

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

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.'

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

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

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'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 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.

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

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