Christina Ricci Quotes

I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.

When I was a kid, I really loved watching 'Cinderella.' It's a fantasy, and every girl knows that real life isn't always like these movies, but as a child, I just really loved the story of 'Cinderella.' I found it to be so romantic and just a beautiful movie to watch.

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

Without romance, films will be boring. I doubt if people now understand romance, though they may claim it otherwise. I am very romantic in real life.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in a book, the animated movies, seemed to provide it.

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.

Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of people love to live vicariously through those characters.

I would love to do comedy. I think I'm funny and that comedy is my strong suit, at least in real life. I have yet to prove myself in the movies, but I'd love to get the opportunity to do that.

I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.

I like movies in particular, on video or T.V. I have lots of old favorites, like Danny Kaye in 'The Court Jester' or 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' or James Stewart in 'Winchester '73.' But I also like a lot of modern films.

Movies are romantic fantasies.

Movies are different from real life.

The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to.

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

I love the magic of movies and television, and I always have since I was kid.

I love horror and sci-fi.

In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

I suppose that's why we watch dramas: to see the stuff that in real life you'd end up in prison for.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

I love going to movies. It's just big, it takes you away, you can escape into it.

In a movie, that's the only time when you're allowed these kind of fantasies to be lived. Being able to look so cool and be able to fight five bad guys and take them down. When can you do that?

It's nice to be able to play a guy who gets to say all the things that you don't get to say in real life.