Christina Ricci Quotes
I think the thing that I always try to do - because it piques my interest - is to play really different parts all the time.
Quotes to Explore
-
I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
-
I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
-
I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
-
People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
-
I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
-
The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
-
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
-
I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
-
I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
-
Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
-
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
-
I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
-
I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
-
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
-
My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
-
Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
-
A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
-
I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
-
The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
-
I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.
-
I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it captures me.
-
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
-
The grand difference between a human being and a Supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from me God does exist. God does not need me in order for Him to be. I do need God in order for me to be. We are dependent. We are fragile. This is how we differ from God.
-
I think the thing that I always try to do - because it piques my interest - is to play really different parts all the time.
