Christina Ricci Quotes

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes' and stuff like 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' and I turned them down.

Brian and I got cast out of that show into Trapper John, M. D.

I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

I have grown up watching Bollywood movies, and I would love to act in them.

I just love working with actors in general.

I just wanted to do it all. Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it, and I had never been on set before. But, from the minute I got on set and did 'Old School,' I was like, 'I want to do this!'

Acting is acting at the end of the day. How does it matter if it is in films or on TV?

After 'Dexter' and 'La Lupe', I would love to return to theater. I'm just ready for more.

I consider myself a novice film actor.

I do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don't think I'll ever leave London.

T.V. acting is a great skill to have, and it's nice to have that stability.

Within a few weeks of coming back from filming 'Lemonade Mouth,' I got these scripts, and 'Terra Nova' was the one that stuck out. I was like, 'Oh my gosh'.

People really don't understand what actors do.

I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' Guild is filled with many, many, many, many people and vastly different careers.

You know, I love acting.

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.

I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of the pack. I remember thinking, 'Wow, that is really good. I would love to be a part of that.'

What I really want to be is an actor.

Being actors is a strange job.

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

Acting is about acting, not about being a movie star.