Christina Ricci Quotes - Page 3

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I don't come from money.

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.

I can be stupid sometimes.

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.

Well, it's difficult to fall in love with a character when you just read the pilot. You don't really know who the character is.

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.

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 always think that I've embarrassed myself.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

People are giving me more respect.

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

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

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.