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.

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.

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

I could easily exist on less money, but I like the way I live now.

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.

I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera. Unlike a lot of actors, I think that's the thing that I'm not so comfortable with.

I'm merely trying to be something akin to a nice, kind, good actress.

I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.