Christina Ricci
I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal.
I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera.
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.
When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.
I'm merely trying to be something akin to a nice, kind, good actress.
I've always done guest-starring stuff.
I work out.
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.Collection: Real
Remember who you are. It's really okay to be who you are.Collection: 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.Collection: People
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.Collection: Thinking
The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded meCollection: Growing Up
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.Collection: Memories
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.Collection: Fall
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.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Teenage
My boyfriend is Jewish, and he calls himself a kike every five seconds.Collection: My Boyfriend
I think that we need to look at ourselves and look at the way women perpetuate misogyny. Because at a certain point you can't blame other people for things in your life. I've felt that most of the misogyny I've witnessed in my life - a lot of it, yes, it comes from men, but most of it professionally has come from other women.Collection: Men
I think we need great artists making great work - women, men, whoever. I think what's great about TV now is there are so many different platforms that you can make really specific, specialized content. I wouldn't have gotten this part because I'm not really considered a "traditional romantic lead," so I created it for myself.Collection: Artist
I've done and said a lot of things when I was younger that I don't know if I even understood what I was doing or why I was doing it. There's a lot of compassion in understanding what people go through and even in trying to understand why a person would act the way they do. I was a very reactive person, and I did things that were just really bizarre; I don't think people understood it at all.Collection: Thinking
That worries me an awful lot. If people misunderstand our intentions [in Black Snake Moan], especially regarding my character, then they're essentially exploiting an already exploited and abused woman. So it's a huge concern for me.Collection: Character
One thing I noticed after being down in Mississippi for the shoot was that words like "God" and "Jesus" are used all the time, but they're not specifically referring to Jesus. It's sort of this accepted phraseology for love, or spirituality, or whatever it is you personally believe in.Collection: Jesus
We can use the romantic relationship as a microcosmic example. Until you really understand the other person and where they're coming from and you understand yourself and how you contribute to things, you can never make that relationship better. And I think sometimes people don't understand how much these things are related.Collection: Thinking
I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Stories
I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic, right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.Collection: Generations
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.'Collection: Teenager
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.Collection: Drinking
If anyone ever saw me dance, they'd have trouble taking me seriously.Collection: Saws
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.Collection: Acting
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...Collection: Movie
I have so much respect for Sam [L.Jackson] that if I had questions about anything, I would call and ask him if he agreed with me before I brought it up with Craig [Brewer].Collection: Brewers
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?Collection: Sarcastic
Hopefully what you do as an actor is strong enough and has enough of an impact that people get what you're trying to communicate.Collection: Strong
I think reincarnation is possible. Hopefully, we all get recycled.Collection: Fun
Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.Collection: Girl
I think that's the best career that someone can have is one that's reflective of their personal tastes.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Fun
When I talk about feminism and what I think the women's movement needs more of, it's not to detract from anything going on - I think everything going on is fantastic - but there's this missing element. I think we could learn from our detractors a little bit because I feel like they have a plan, a better understanding of things than we necessarily do. You can't change things if you don't understand the other people involved. And if you don't understand yourself, you'll never change.Collection: Thinking
If I know I have everything prepared for when I get killed by a stalker, then I can go to sleep.Collection: Sleep
If an audience doesn't get that [Black Snake Moan] is a movie about overcoming exploitation, it could come across as incredibly misogynistic. That would be the worst thing in the world for me.Collection: Snakes
Working in television 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. You have more time, more room, an ability to reflect on your performance and the character and how much has really been shown, and what you'd like to see. It's nice. You have more breathing room.Collection: Nice
I can be stupid sometimes.Collection: Stupid
I think everybody who really wants to change things has to allow themselves to be angry in a constructive way, and you have to fully understand the thing you're trying to change. We really need to get serious about this now; there needs to be real, effective programs. I think there needs to be a little bit more strategy involved and a little more realism, to be pragmatic and realistic, looking at the way we as women contribute to the problem. Once the second half of the population stops doing it, it's going to end.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Self Harm
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.Collection: Teenage
To be honest, I don't usually do very much research, especially if I'm working with a director who also wrote the screenplay. They've usually done a tonne of research. And they'll tell you about it from their perspective which is better than doing your own research.Collection: Perspective