Christina Ricci Quotes

My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.

There is a whole other generation that knows me from "Arrested Development" "Scream" and, of course, "Happy Days."

I can't single out one thing that influenced me. My generation was influenced greatly by the manga that came out during our childhood.

You know you've been around a long time when your stuntman says, 'Yeah, my grandfather doubled you.'

I can't stop watching black and white movies. I live in a world of Warner Brothers movies and all of that stuff from an older era, and I love them. I still love them. When I look at them, I sometimes think I was born in the wrong time.

We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could reintroduce them to a new audience.

I can't think of my life without Donna Reed. She has been such an enormous influence on my life.

I didn't know who Avedon was. I was 18 years old. I dropped out of high school in the 10th grade. I had no idea.

My nieces and my nephews think the only thing that I do is 'Ice Age.' That's fine with me because pretty soon they'll grow up enough to realize that I suck or that my time has passed, whichever it might be.

Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.

I certainly wouldn't want to be the man who was compared to John Ritter through my eyes.

Old film-noir movies. There's something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and hearing this kind of music just puts me in a fantasy world. It's a really great escape for me.

Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.

I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

I don't know how many times I heard older people, and not just parents but just older people, say, 'Oh, my God. Your generation is just totally nuts. You have no sense of what it was really like, when it was great.' And every generation has that same feeling, you know?

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

Christopher Reeve will always be Superman in my mind.

I loved old movies as a kid, so I always watched old movies.

I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways.

I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.

One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre.

I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.

I'm sure that President [Lyndon] Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright [scholarship] to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.