Top 100 Christina Ricci Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I always think that I’ve embarrassed myself.”

— Christina Ricci

52. “I don’t know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.”

— Christina Ricci

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

— Christina Ricci

54. “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?”

— Christina Ricci

55. “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.”

— Christina Ricci

56. “I’m a TV addict, and I personally really enjoy reality TV.”

— Christina Ricci

57. “There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.”

— Christina Ricci

58. “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.”

— Christina Ricci

59. “I would love to fly privately, but unfortunately, I don’t. I don’t summer anywhere either.”

— Christina Ricci

60. “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.”

— Christina Ricci

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

— Christina Ricci

62. “I’ve never been to a race car race before.”

— Christina Ricci

63. “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.”

— Christina Ricci

64. “I’m really open to everything.”

— Christina Ricci

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

— Christina Ricci

66. “If anyone ever saw me dance, they’d have trouble taking me seriously.”

— Christina Ricci

67. “I mean, I don’t like anyone who likes themselves too much.”

— Christina Ricci

68. “I don’t think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.”

— Christina Ricci

69. “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.”

— Christina Ricci

70. “It’s fun to be sarcastic, but now I’m able to express myself in a way that’s much more sincere.”

— Christina Ricci

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

— Christina Ricci

72. “This life that I’ve led has been really well suited for me.”

— Christina Ricci

73. “I’m one of those people who loves to fly.”

— Christina Ricci

74. “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.”

— Christina Ricci

75. “When I was a little girl – well, like, a teenager – I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.”

— Christina Ricci

76. “I’m an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.”

— Christina Ricci

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

— Christina Ricci

78. “I once ate McDonald’s three times in one day.”

— Christina Ricci

79. “I don’t come from money.”

— Christina Ricci

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

— Christina Ricci

81. “I think I’ve always been interested in playing people who are judged very harshly.”

— Christina Ricci

82. “I’m incredibly naive.”

— Christina Ricci

83. “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...”

— Christina Ricci

84. “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.”

— Christina Ricci

85. “I think the thing that I always try to do – because it piques my interest – is to play really different parts all the time.”

— Christina Ricci

86. “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.”

— Christina Ricci

87. “I can’t think of anything that I turned down that became big and successful.”

— Christina Ricci

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

— Christina Ricci

89. “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.”

— Christina Ricci

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

— Christina Ricci

91. “I didn’t use to think anything was worth keeping private. Now I do.”

— Christina Ricci

92. “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.”

— Christina Ricci

93. “As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, ‘She looks too healthy,’ which of course translates as, ‘She needs to lose weight.’”

— Christina Ricci

94. “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.”

— Christina Ricci

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

— Christina Ricci

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

— Christina Ricci

97. “I don’t think I’m an outsider at all.”

— Christina Ricci

98. “I like to do things sort of intuitively, I think.”

— Christina Ricci

99. “Well, I think I’ve had a fairly meandering career.”

— Christina Ricci

100. “Recently, I’ve really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults.”

— Christina Ricci