Quotes from Christina Ricci

I'm always in bed by 11 or 12 and people laugh all the time - they want me to hang out until two in the morning, but n-n-no, I need my nine hours.

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'm so glad I'm not 20 years old anymore. I was in a hurricane. I'm a lot calmer now. I don't cause destruction for myself and others everywhere I go.

My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.

I would love to fly privately, but unfortunately, I don't. I don't summer anywhere either.

I'm very insecure.

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

I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

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.

I take Wellbutrin because I'm afraid to go into stores. I'm afraid people are going to yell at me.

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

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

I didn't use to think anything was worth keeping private. Now I do.

My sister and I shared a bedroom our entire lives and I believe she discovered the Beatles when she was about 11 and I'm four years younger. So from the age of 7 until 17 we had nothing but Beatles paraphernalia in our room, even those little stuffed Beatles that went on stands that are dressed as the Sgt. Pepper band.

Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.

For years, I hated myself. I covered the mirrors in my house. I literally couldn't have a mirror in my room.

Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.

I'm incredibly naive.

Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in.

I think I am naturally attracted to things that are a little bit out of this world.

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.

I was really bored and unhappy in school, and I used to act out and do horrible things.

We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.