Christina Ricci (Actor)

"After I got of high school, I was like, this [acting] is my job. Before, I was doing it because it was fun. Now, I'm like, this is how I pay my rent. Now I have to keep working, because I'm afraid if I stop, I won't have any money." - Ricci to Us magazine, June 1998

"Basically, I'm like a whore. I'll give people whatever they want so they'll like me." - Ricci quoted in Premiere magazine, Oct. 2, 2002

"Christina has the most remarkable face on-camera. It's a combination of angelic and sensual, really peaceful and troubled. There's this whole complex of energies going on, which is really fascinating." - director Risa Bramon Garcia ("200 Cigarettes") to Time Out New York, May 14-21, 1998

"Christina is a great combination of little-girl vulnerability and tough-talking gun moll. She does not tolerate phonies." - director Don Roos ("The Opposite of Sex") to The New York Times, May 17, 1998

"I let people do what they need to do to me image-wise and visually while I'm at work, because I know the difference between being at work and what I do at home. That just comes from growing up on sets, whereas if you come in as an adult, you're a little bit more guarded about who you are." - Ricci to Premiere magazine, September 2006

"I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off." - Ricci to Movieline November 2002

"I never lose touch with my anger. I have no idea what the real source is, but I'm always mad about something. It gets ridiculous at times. I have life rage. What am I going to with it? I can't kick the shit out of someone. I can't yell or constantly be rude to people, because that's unacceptable. I have a therapist on each coast. I've had a problem with that, too, because I've had a different personality when I go to different ones. I've overcome that, though, because I really don't think that helps my therapy at all. [Laughing] I'd say that, deep down, I'm very disillusioned. I've been that way for a very long time. As much as I'm cynical, though, there's a lot of optimism in me, which pretty much assures that, over and over, I'm going to be disillusioned [Laughing]. But I have the ability to laugh at all this stuff." - Ricci to Movieline, April 1998

"I was an evil child - well, misguided. I just felt school was never going to end, that there was a weird smell in the classroom I was going to have to smell for the rest of my life. If a little kid could be depressed, I guess I was depressed." - Ricci quoted in Time magazine, June 15, 1998

"I'm sort of the last person another actress needs to be competitive with, because all I want is steady pay" - Ricci quoted in Interview magazine, February 2004

"I've been very guarded since I was little. I think that's whay I'm an actor, because I can hide any emotion I have at any time and I can put on another one whenever I need to." - Ricci to Graham Fuller in Interview magazine, October 1997

"This is a girl who spent most of her childhood on a set. She loves the action, the activity, the focus and the attention. She likes to be around the camera - in front of it, behind it or beside it." - director Don Roos, on Ricci, to W magazine, September 2006

"We're kind of kindred spirits. She's me in a very small body." - Cher to People, Nov. 6, 1995

About the transition from child to adult actor: "I think the main reason a lot of people don't make it is that it's hard to see someone as cute as then to all of a sudden see them as having more depth. I guess I was just lucky that when I was little, nobody thought I was that cute." - Ricci quoted in Rolling Stone magazine, Aug. 20, 1998

Ricci was discovered at age eight in school play, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" by the drama critic for the Bergen Record who gave the family the telephone number of an agent; the critic's son had originally been cast in the role but Ricci got the boy to hit her and tattled on him, receiving the part as part of his punishment.

The world is just a really scary place. People scare the shit out of me." - Ricci to Esquire magazine, March 2007