Christina Ricci Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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#3. We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society.

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#4. 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.

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#5. As soon as I wake up, I check my phone, hoping there's a message from you.

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

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

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

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.

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

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#13. I guess I'm a workaholic!

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#14. 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.

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

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

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

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#18. I'm incredibly naive.

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#19. I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.

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#20. 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.

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#21. 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.

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#22. 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.

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#23. The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.

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

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

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

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#27. I'm a lazy, lazy girl.

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

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

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

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

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#32. 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.

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#33. 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.

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

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#35. 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.

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#36. I tend to fight for something that I believe in.

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#37. 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.'

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#38. Nobody can make me smile like the way you do.

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

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#40. 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.

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#41. I won't swim in a pool by myself, because I think that somehow a little magic door is going to open up and let a shark out

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

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#43. I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.

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

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

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#46. 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.

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

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

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#49. I would love to fly privately, but unfortunately, I don't. I don't summer anywhere either.

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

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#51. 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.

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

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

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

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#55. People are giving me more respect.

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#56. Any obsession is dangerous.

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#57. I've been to therapists my whole life.

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

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

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#60. 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.

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#61. I think I am naturally attracted to things that are a little bit out of this world.

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#62. I don't come from money.

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

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#64. 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.

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#65. 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.

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

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#67. I am a Christian. I haven't really talked about that before. It is something very private. But I do pray and my beliefs are very important to me.

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

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#69. I don't have life rage anymore.

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#70. I'm really open to everything.

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#71. I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal.

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

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#73. The moment I start losing friends is the moment I start living the positive way and leave the negativity behind.

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#74. I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

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

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#76. 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.

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

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#78. 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.

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

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

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

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#82. 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?

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#83. Remember who you are. It's really okay to be who you are.

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

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

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#86. 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.

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

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

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

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#90. 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.

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

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#92. I'm very insecure.

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#93. 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.

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#94. 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.

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