Top 150 Quotes & Sayings by Christina Ricci - Page 2

I've been to therapists my whole life.

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

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

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.

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.

I'm a lazy, lazy girl.

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

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

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

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

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'm very insecure.

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

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

Any obsession is dangerous.

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

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

People are giving me more respect.

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

I'm incredibly naive.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't have life rage anymore.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I’m not going to let my insecurities keep me from having a good time. I think that if you don’t loose your self-consciousness, you can’t really be present in a situation. For example, if you’re at The Louvre, but you’re thinking about how much you hate your jeans, you’re not really at The Louvre. So in your memory, when you look back, you’re always going to be like, “I was wearing those jeans I hated”. And you’re not going to remember anything else.

Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face, but those that fall from the heart and cover the soul.

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

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.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me

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.

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 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.

Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.

We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society.

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.

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.

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?