Christina Ricci Quotes

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

Christina Ricci

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• There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Women
  • Man
  • Hero

• The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Mean
  • Jewish
  • Anti-Semitism

• DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Great
  • Job

• I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Enjoy
  • Actor
  • Living

• Anthony Johnson hits harder than any other person, no doubt. Every time he hit me, it made me kind of, like, fly all over the place. He was trying to take my head off.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Doubt

• During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Future
  • Violence
  • Childhood

• Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Women
  • Why
  • Book

• Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.

  

  Garth Nix
  • People
  • Love
  • Job

• The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • People
  • Kind
  • Literature

• I love London; I could totally live here, actually. I'm in New York most of the time, and it really reminds me a lot of New York.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Time
  • Live
  • Love

• If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • Song
  • Tears
  • Frank Sinatra

• But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Me
  • Always
  • Influenced

• Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Special
  • Really
  • Make

• When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • People
  • Theater
  • Broadway

• I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Family
  • Times
  • Been

• You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • You
  • How

• I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Think
  • Like
  • Sometimes

• Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Up
  • Me
  • Never

• I'm inspired by the words: 'electrifying', 'epic', 'minimalistic', 'transcendent', 'timeless' and 'rock n' roll.'

  

  Janelle Monae
  • Words
  • Rock
  • Inspired

• Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Actors
  • Successful
  • Lose

• People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Simple
  • Sound
  • Realizing

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

  

  Christina Ricci