Christina Ricci movie quotes

“- Jerry Falk: Where's the rifle? I need the rifle. I'm going to blow my brains out!
- Amanda: Oh, don't be so middle class!”

Jason Biggs - Jerry Falk
Christina Ricci - Amanda

- Wednesday Addams: Pugsley, sit in the chair.
- Pugsley Addams: Why?
- Wednesday Addams: So we can play a game.
- Pugsley Addams: What game?
- Wednesday Addams: It's called, "Is There a God?".
Christina Ricci - Wednesday Addams
Jimmy Workman - Pugsley Addams

“You don't know what it's like, Bone, getting out on your own, then being dragged back home. You wait a few years, get yourself a sweetheart, a job that pays your own money, stuff you like to do that your mama says is silly or sinful. Just about everything I like in this world is silly or sinful. But then, mama, I don't care. I got my car and I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Christina Ricci - Dee Dee

“- Amanda: Am I late?
- Jerry Falk: Not if we go by Rocky Mountain time.”
Christina Ricci - Amanda
Jason Biggs - Jerry Falk

“My mother took advantage of it from an early age, throwing me into plays, spelling bees, studying, writing, museums, concerts, and even more writing. She convinced me this would lead to the Holy Grail: Harvard. A place where I would finally be surrounded by people I had something in common with.”

Christina Ricci - Elizabeth

“- Ichabod Crane: Katrina, I might have killed you. Why have you come?
- Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Because no one else would go with you.
- Ichabod Crane: I am now twice the man, and it is your white magic.”
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane
Christina Ricci - Katrina Van Tassel

Hemingway has his classic moment in "The Sun Also Rises" when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt. All he can say is, "Gradually, then suddenly". That's how depression hits. You wake up one morning, afraid that you're gonna live.
Christina Ricci - Elizabeth

“All the drugs, all the therapy, fights, anger, guilt, rave, suicidal thoughts, all of that was part of some slow recovery process. The same way I went down I came back up, gradually... and then suddenly. The pills weren't the cure at all. God knows, but they gave me breathing space which allowed me to start writing again.”
Christina Ricci - Elizabeth

“- Dede Truitt: I'd like a Long Island iced tea, please.
- Bill Truitt: Is that a good idea, for the baby?
- Dede Truitt: Oh, please. This baby owes its life to Long Island iced teas, if you know what I mean.”
Christina Ricci - Dede Truitt
Martin Donovan - Bill Truitt

“- Beth Easton: Does your mother know you come here?
- Jody Salerno: My mother? My mother probably thinks I'm still in the next room. You've heard about her haven't you?
- Beth Easton: Heard what?
- Jody Salerno: You know Beth, when you lie your whole face twitches.”
Christina Ricci - Beth Easton
Anna Chlumsky - Jody Salerno

“- Layla: Can I have a hug, then?
- Billy Brown: Oh, man. Come on. Can we just shake hands?”
Christina Ricci - Layla
Vincent Gallo - Billy Brown

“Act your age, not your shoe size.”
Christina Ricci - Kate Flax

My mother was the kind of mother who always said she was her daughter's best friend. Whenever she did, I thought, "Great! Not only do I have a shitty mother, but my best friend's a loser bitch!".
Christina Ricci - Dede Truitt

“- Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Keep it close to your heart. It's sure protection against harm.
- Ichabod Crane: Are you so certain of everything?”

Christina Ricci - Katrina Van Tassel
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane

“- Dede Truitt: God. How does a woman get so bitter?
- Lucia DeLury: Observation.”
Christina Ricci - Dede Truitt
Lisa Kudrow - Lucia DeLury

“- Mrs. Wurtzel: Come on, this is the most important day of your life!
- Elizabeth: I thought that's when you get married.
- Mrs. Wurtzel: Huh, no honey, that's the worst day of your life.”
Jessica Lange - Mrs. Wurtzel
Christina Ricci - Elizabeth

“- Becky Martin-Granger: It's an American Bald Eagle!
- Gary Granger: But, aren't they extinct?
- Wednesday Addams: They are now.”
Christine Baranski - Becky Martin-Granger
Peter MacNicol - Gary Granger
Christina Ricci - Wednesday Addams

“- Dede Truitt: I just don't think it's something we should rush into.
- Lucia DeLury: Oh, no, no. But bring another human life onto the planet - that's whim time.”
Christina Ricci - Dede Truitt
Lisa Kudrow - Lucia DeLury

“- Jessica Wilhern: What are you doing?
- Penelope: Just speeding things up.
- Jessica Wilhern: Oh, so now you're just going to make a pig of yourself?”

Catherine O'Hara - Jessica Wilhern
Christina Ricci - Penelope Wilhern

“- Wednesday Addams: Nobody gets out of the Bermuda Triangle, not even for a vacation. Everyone knows that.
- Dr. Greta Pinder-Schloss: Oh, my little bundle. So much you don't understand. The human spirit, it is a hard thing to kill.
- Granny: Even with a chainsaw.”
Christina Ricci - Wednesday Addams
Elizabeth Wilson - Dr. Greta Pinder-Schloss
Judith Malina - Granny

If you think I'm just plucky and scrappy and all I need is love, you're in over your heads. I don't have a heart of gold and I don't grow one later, OK? But relax. There's other people a lot nicer coming up - we call them "losers".
Christina Ricci - Dede Truitt

“- Penelope: Helaborasoreantalis. They're amazing; they bloom even in the winter.
- Annie: That's cool.
- Penelope: They just pop up without any help from anyone.
- Annie: Kind of like my ex-boyfriend, if you know what I mean.”
Christina Ricci - Penelope Wilhern
Reese Witherspoon - Annie

“- Kathleen 'Kat' Harvey: I can see right through you.
- Casper: Yeah, kind of happens when you haven't got any skin.”

Christina Ricci - Kathleen 'Kat' Harvey
Malachi Pearson - Casper

“- Carolyn McDuffy: I'm afraid I'm falling in love but I don't want to. He's mentally retarded.
- Dr. Frederico Cruz: How retarded?
- Carolyn McDuffy: Retarded retarded.”
Christina Ricci - Carolyn McDuffy
Julio Oscar Mechoso - Dr. Frederico Cruz

“Back, back, back. How fucking far back do you go? My mom and dad were divorced before I was two, and from that on my father was almost uninvolved in my life, and my mother much too involved. She wanted to make up for all her mistakes through me.”
Christina Ricci - Elizabeth