CHRISTINA RICCI

I tend to fight for something that I believe in.

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 mean, I sing. But I don't think I'm a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.

Any obsession is dangerous.

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

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.

The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types of actors and directors and different styles of acting and build a tool box.

My mom knows when something is real and something is not.

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.

We have so much pride in welcoming these passengers onto the plane, and they have so much pride in travel. It's something that I definitely always remember, when I'm playing a scene on the plane, just to imbue everything with that sense of excitement.

This life that I've led has been really well suited for me.

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.

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.

I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous.

I'm incredibly naive.

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

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

I've always done guest-starring stuff.

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

People are giving me more respect.

I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break.

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

I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera.

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.

I am a Christian. I haven't really talked about that before. It is something very private. But I do pray and my beliefs are very important to me.