Christina Ricci Quotes

I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal.

Christina Ricci

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• There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Me
  • Kid
  • Curious

• I hate jeans for no reason.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Hate
  • Reason
  • Jeans

• A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Live
  • Women
  • Why

• It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • World
  • Support
  • Incredibly

• A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Life
  • Women
  • My Life

• I try cars; I try them all. Cars need to be sexy, because we're not talking about biscuits here.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Try
  • Sexy
  • Talking

• I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Water
  • Childhood
  • Sea

• I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Catholic
  • Beatnik

• No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Life
  • Business
  • Experience

• The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Time
  • Country
  • Opinion

• First of all, I'm Middle Eastern; I'm Iranian, so to be playing a leading role in a big Hollywood movie, I think, is possibly one of the first times.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Movie
  • Think
  • First

• You could write your fingers off for 25 years... and never get the kind of hearing you could get from shooting off your mouth on television for a half hour every week.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Kind
  • Television
  • Week

• To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Challenge
  • Artist
  • Look

• I am a metrosexual and into male grooming - I moisturise, I exfoliate.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Grooming
  • Moisturise
  • Exfoliated

• I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever worked for me was me being me, so either you love it or not.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Like
  • Being
  • Thing

• The greater the power, the greater the responsibility in its exercise.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Exercise

• I'm the kind of person that responds strongly to a challenge.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Kind
  • Challenge
  • Person

• With two civil wars, an al-Qaida presence and 40% unemployment, what else is President Saleh waiting for? He should leave office now.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Waiting
  • Now
  • Presence

• Although someone's vote may hurt me by supporting the structures in place that hold people of colour, women, and LGBT+ people down, some people just don't realise that these structures exist. The way someone votes doesn't make them a bad person; it just means that, at the time, this was the best decision they thought they could make.

  

  Karamo Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• I've talked a lot about the need to promote digital empowerment: to enable any American who wants high-speed Internet access, or broadband, to get it.

  

  Ajit Pai
  • American
  • High

• Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case.

  

  Wilhelm Ostwald
  • Effect
  • Reaction
  • Case

• I'm blessed with three children who actually aren't terribly impressed with pandering to my ego, and one of my children has a bit of a problem with the sex scenes because when she reads the stuff, she hears my voice in her head, and apparently reading a sex scene written by your mother with her describing it is rather off-putting!

  

  Jennifer Fallon
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Reading

• A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

  

  Jim Dale
  • Career
  • Theatre
  • Commitment

• I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal.

  

  Christina Ricci