Quotes by Christina Ricci

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

“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've never been to a race car race before.”

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

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

“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'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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I don't come from money.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“People are giving me more respect.”

“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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