Christina Ricci Quotes

I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'

I wasn't the prettiest girl in class. No breasts, short legs, gangly teeth. I didn't think I was model material, that's for sure.

I don't think I am pretty. I think I'm quite strange-looking.

I'm not a beautiful prom-girl type.

I was never pretty, never really popular. I was lanky and funny looking.

For a long time, I did feel aware that I wasn't pretty or bubbly enough. Nor was I sexy-looking.

Growing up, I never felt like the pretty girl.

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them. In other words, they labeled me with words like overweight, unattractive, unappealing.

When I first started doing screen work, I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough for this profession - all the actresses I watch on screen are gorgeous and beautiful goddesses, but I'm just a scrawny, scruffy girl from southwest London.'

I was never a good-looking bloke. Not by a long chalk.

You get stared at the whole time. I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. Being considered beautiful, I always felt that people were waiting for something more. I imagined you were supposed to have an intellectual ability - and I'm making no claims here - proportional to your supposed good looks.

The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.

I was not an attractive child.

And anyway, modeling wasn't for me. I'm too short. I've got a big butt. It wasn't going to happen.

I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.

I really don't think I ever thought I could be a model. I was shorter than all of the models around and certainly rounder than anybody that I had ever seen in a magazine.

It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.

I was actually very ugly. I was ugly. I felt very insecure.

I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.

I was always told I was ugly. I still think I am ugly. I know I've got an odd face and you can't tell me otherwise.

I was never pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I was never quirky enough to be the quirky girl. Boys didn't look at me in high school and think I was the pretty girl.

We see these cute, perfect bombshells that make me feel like I'm not good enough, I'm not pretty enough. I don't think I could pull off playing a person like that, and do I want to? I don't know.

Okay, I am happy with the way I look, but I have never, never, ever thought of myself as a 'pretty girl.' Honestly. When I read some of these scripts I'm sent, and they describe the heroine as 'incredibly beautiful,' I wonder why they sent it to me.

I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.