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| • | "she coolly puffs on a cigarette", Sunday Mirror (UK), Oct. 15, '95 |
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| • | picture caption: "Oh, what does one do on a dull afternoon when one is a young, oh-so-cool Hollywood star? Well, if one is Christina Ricci, one hangs with one's cool actor buds like Macaulay Culkin, and shows how to look totally cool smoking a cigarette - NOT! Don't try this at home, kids!", TV Hits (Australia), Jan. '96, p. 75 |
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| • | smoked at Stealing Beauty premiere, Dayton Daily News, Jul. 8, '96 |
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| • | "brandishing Parliament cigarettes", Detour Magazine, Oct. '97, p. 52 |
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| • | "I'll be smoking, and a woman will bring up her little kids and say 'they look up to you so much,' and I feel bad. I consider myself such a mess, and my life is not something people should want for themselves. But, I feel no responsibility. I feel badly smoking around little kids because they probably shouldn't. But I am a teen-ager. I am still allowed a couple years of being bad to myself.", AP, Minneapolis-Saint Paul Star Tribune, Oct. 22, '97 |
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| • | "My favourite thing about living in New York is getting into a cab at 8am, rolling down the window and having that first cigarette.", Neon (UK), Feb. '98 |
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| • | "what's in your purse? 'a journal I make random notes in, a cigarette case, a Filofax, my passport, sunglasses'", Palm Beach Post, Apr. 5, '98 |
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| • | "At Lucky Strike, the SoHo restaurant she chose so that she could smoke, she made an ashtray out of cellophane when the waitress kept forgetting to bring her the real kind, and she answered questions with candor", New York Times, May 17, '98 |
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| • | "Seated in a busy bar after a day of interviews, Christina Ricci sips a Coke and thinks about a cigarette", Los Angeles Times, May 21, '98 |
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| • | "this Ricci chain-smokes her way through an interview and handles herself with sophisticated assurance", Orlando Sentinel, Jun. 14, '98 |
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| • | "'I look at 'The Ice Storm' now and think that it saved my career', she says between puffs on a cigarette", Allentown (PA) Morning Call, Jun. 27, '98 |
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| • | "'I love to complain,' says Christina Ricci, pouring Diet Dr Pepper over her cigarette to put it out.", Buzz Magazine, Jun. '98 |
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| • | "I want to find that machine that gives you cigarettes", MTV, Jun. 15, '98 |
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| • | "releasing a long stream of smoke from an ever-present Parliament", Boston Globe, Jun. 18, '98 |
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| • | "Chain-smoking Parliament lights ('I can't really talk for extended periods of time without smoking')", City Paper (Philadelphia), Jun. 25-Jul. 2, '98
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| • | "tugs on her bra strap almost as often as she puffs on a cigarette", City Paper (Washington DC), Jun. 26, '98, p. 41 |
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| • | "`Teen-age girls are always in coming-of-age movies,' she says, taking a drag on a cigarette and exhaling noisily into the phone", Toronto Globe and Mail, Jun. 27, '98 |
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| • | "Ricci's political incorrectness extends largely to the cigarettes she smokes", referring to her disdain for preparing for acting roles, director Don Roos says "she claims she's just too lazy, and that's time she could spend smoking", Cleveland Plain Dealer, Jun. 30, '98 |
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| • | "She also used to put cigarettes out on her arms", Spokane Spokesman Review, Jul. 19, '98 |
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| • | "A cigarette smoulders in her small hand ... she pauses in the middle of the empty street to light a cigarette ... he smokes Parliaments, she says, because they have a weird indented filter, so you always know if you've put the wrong end in your mouth. She lights a match. It sputters in the wind and dies.... she lights the cigarette", Spin Magazine, Jul. '98
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| • | "Ricci and Macaulay Culkin met when they were leaders of the bratpack at New York's 'Fame' stage school. While their classmates were still waiting for a break, Christina and Culkin were already millionaires, dressing in grungy clothes, puffing cigarettes and running amok in the plush Manhattan apartment of the Home Alone star", Sunday Mail (UK), Sep. 27, '98 |
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| • | "in between smoking, chewing mints and singing quietly...she will vehemently dismiss her fellow drivers", "she says, stepping into the sunshine and lighting a cigarette", "It was Christina's brothers, on the other hand, who introduced her to smoking. She was 11, and they took her out into the back garden and gave her a cigarette. Of course, she nearly passed out coughing. 'They thought it was funny,' she says. A full-blown habit, uneasily tolerated by her mother, didn't develop until she was 15. Three years on she lights up at roughly half-hourly intervals. Her preferred brand is Parliament Lights, mostly because of their curious recessed filter. 'That way you know not to put the wrong end in your mouth,' she says", The Face, Oct. '98 |
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| • | "I'd like to get paid well and have a big trailer', the 18-year-old says, puffing on a cig at Time Cafe", Paper Magazine, Oct. '98
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| • | "How did Vincent Gallo persuade you to do Buffalo '66? Christina: He ran for a block in the rain to get me matches for my cigarette. He's like a professional charmer. He can seduce anyone", US Weekly, '98
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| • | "flicking her ash into an outsize antique bowl - one definitely not intended to be used as an ashtray by this ostentatiously high-tone hotel. There is some Nicorette chewing gum floating about among the coffee cups on the antique table, but I have to assume it's not hers. She doesn't strike you as the kind of girl who wants to give up smoking, and is certainly not someone who would have any truck with something as wimpy as Nicorette gum", The Express (UK), Jan. 16, '99 |
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| • | "She is sitting here...smoking through a hacking cough", Film Review Yearbook (26), Jan. '99 |
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| • | "chain-smoking parliaments and chatting blithely about burning her arms with cigarettes...puffing away on a cigarette", Premiere Magazine, Feb. '99
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| • | "She gets through the cigs like a 50s starlet, chain-smoking her fave brand Parliaments", "chain-smoking saucepot", Sky, Mar. '99 |
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| • | "when she walks into a hotel bar in New York and sits down with a glass of champagne (she is served, even though New York's legal drinking age is 21) and a pack of cigarettes, she looks shockingly youthful and tiny ... 'I like being a teenager,' she says, 'and I love the idea of rebellion. I don't know how I'm going to keep that alive when I'm in my 20s. Like smoking. I want to give it up but for all the wrong reasons. I feel there's no point in being a smoker if you're not a teen smoker'", Los Angeles Times, Nov. 14, '99 |
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| • | "American actress Christina Ricci is proud to be a imperfect role model to teenagers - and thinks the fact that she smokes and drinks only helps her. She says, 'I do worry about things, especially when I'm smoking or having a drink'", World Entertainment News Network, Nov. 15, '99 |
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| • | "Ricci took a drag on her cigarette and exhaled before taking on that subject", Boston Herald, Nov. 16, '99 |
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| • | "'When I get annoyed, I tend to get really sarcastic,' Ricci says ruefully as she fires up a cigarette", Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Nov. 18, '99 |
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| • | same, Amarillo Globe-News, Nov. 18, '99
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| • | "Ricci ransacks her big pony-hair bag for a lighter, locates a cigarette", "'She told us it was a secret,' Ricci says, lighting a cigarette", "she smokes", Rolling Stone, Dec. 9, '99 |
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| • | "She smokes - but never in pictures for US magazines (European ones are OK)", Times of London (UK), Dec. 11, '99 |
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| • | "she smokes like a train and will breezily discuss the delights of burning her arms with cigarettes", "blasting her way through her career in a cloud of smoke and attitude", "a disdainful tapping of her ash", "'I have to quit smoking.' For health reasons, presumably? 'No. For me there's just no point in being a smoker unless I'm a teenage smoker'", Sunday Express magazine (UK), Dec. 12, '99 |
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| • | "MLLE:Did alcohol and drugs ever become a problem? CR: I never liked drugs-they made me feel awful physically. Of course I experimented, but soon I thought, This is not worth the shame spiral the next day. IÕm the kind of person who, if I went to a slumber party and smoked a cigarette, I assumed my parents were going to die as punishment. So IÕd have to call my mom, tell her IÕd smoked and feel really bad", Mademoiselle, '99
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| • | "She looks so much like Alice in Wonderland, you half expect the Mad Hatter to appear from behind her skirt. Except Alice wouldn't be sipping on a can of Diet Coke and taking heavy drags on a Marlboro. In fact, on closer inspection she looks more like a rock'n'roll Cinderella. 'She's so petite,' whispers one gawping extra. A devoted PA produces a giant umbrella to shield this delicate urban fairy from drops of London rain. 'I'm so tired,' says Christina, stubbing out her cigarette with a minute velvet slipper", Vogue (UK), Jan. '00
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| • | "The 19-year-old promised herself that she will stub out at least one bad habit - smoking - when she is no longer a teenager. 'I still enjoy smoking just because I'm a teenage smoker. I am gonna give up once I stop being a teenager. I know it won't be easy to give up but it's just a phase. I wasn't born a smoker'", World Entertainment News Network, Jan. 26, '00 |
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| • | "I arrived to film 'Casper' with another girl my age to find her mother very concerned. She didn't want her daughter to hang out with me. I suppose I smoked and cursed freely, but I was always well-mannered. My mother taught me to me, I was having a normal childhood because it was the only childhood I knew ... We order beers and smoke cigarettes", Marie Claire Magazine, Feb. '00
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| • | "The actress, who's just turned 20, vowed to quit smoking when she was no longer a teenager. 'I enjoy smoking just because I'm a teenage smoker, I wasn't a born smoker.'", TV Quick, Feb. 26-Mar. 3, '00 |
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| • | "She was seriously anorexic for a while, hated what she looked like - and that gave her a shock. She still chain smokes", The Guardian (UK), Nov. 25, '00
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| • | "She laughs and tries to light a cigarette. ... She lets out a long stream of smoke", The Independent (UK), Dec. 8, '00
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| • | "Christina Ricci is a chain-smoker. Has been for years. At least since her difficult father divorced her mother, a former Ford model. From, that is, about the age of 13", "Ricci's sliding a coffin nail from its packet when I pop the question: 'Do you still stub cigarettes on your arms?' Ricci lights up and exhales a wisp of blue smoke. Very matter-of-fact: 'I wouldn't call it a phase, but it isn't what I do today'", "I haven't done anything I'm ashamed of. The cigarettes", Daily Express (UK), Dec. 9, '00 |
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| • | smokes in the making of featurette, Man Who Cried, The (2000), '00 |
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| • | "Ricci is nestled in an oversized winged back chair balancing a crystal ashtray on her lap ... Brandishing a cigarette lighter", Hobart (Australia) Mercury, Jan. 1, '01 |
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| • | "reaching for a cigarette", Copley News Service, May 28, '01 |
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| • | "Christina Ricci sits down, lights a cigarette", Movieline, May '01, p. 41 |
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| • | "Before she curls up in an armchair for another interview at the Four Seasons hotel, she moves freely about the suite as if it were her home. Her cigarette lighter and a well-used ashtray rest on the coffee table", Los Angeles Daily News, Jun. 3, '01 |
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| • | smoked outside Prozac Nation screening, netizen, Jun. 26, '01
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| • | "candid and controversial, a compulsive talker and smoker", Toronto Sun, Sep. 10, '01 |
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| • | "Christina Ricci having a fag on the balcony at the MTV VIP dinner at the Hotel Intercontinental at the MTV Europe Music Awards", The Mirror (Surveillance gossip column) (UK), Nov. 9, '01 |
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| • | "[backstage at the MTV Europe Awards] Christina Ricci is sucking on a cigarette", The Mirror (UK), Nov. 20, '01 |
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| • | "Christina Ricci sighting at the Sundance Film Festival, outside a coffee shop on Main Street. Another tiny actress-smoker", Chicago Sun-Times, Jan. 14, '02 |
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| • | "Christina Ricci flops into a chair and lights up a cigarette", Daily Mail (UK), Jan. 18, '02 |
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| • | "I see her walk by the front door, disappear, and then reappear with the pack of cigarettes she's just bought at the newsstand next door... I'm immediately stuck by Ricci's poise and maturity as we sit in the sun smoking Parliaments...", IFC Rant (magazine), May/Jun. '02, p. 13 |
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| • | "Nick Moran and the teeny-tiny, chain-smoking Christina Ricci shimmy past me on the dance floor before also disappearing to VIP heaven", Sunday Mirror (UK), Jun. 16, '02 |
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| • | "Can I smoke while we speak?", New York Post, Mar. 26, '03 |
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| • | "At some point, she switches to hot chocolate and smokes a couple of Parliament Lights", Nylon, Mar. '03 |
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| • | "[on the set of 'Monster'] Ricci stands off in the distance smoking with the crew", Elle Magazine, Jun. '03, p. 162 |
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| • | "lights another cigarette", Gala (Germany), Jul. 24, '03 |
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| • | "letting a Camel Light burn down between her fingers.....comes over to cadge a cigarette from her", Esquire (UK), Jul. '03 |
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| • | "At the Toronto Film Festival, at a press conference for the movie I Love Your Work at the Delta Chelsea, model-actress Shalom Harlow got ciggie-envy when Christina Ricci and Giovanni Ribisi were openly blowing smoke, and interrupted the proceedings entirely by asking,'Does anyone have a cigarette?'", National Post (Canada), Sep. 9, '03 |
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| • | "Every day, the papers breathlessly report where Sofia Coppola enjoyed a beef burger the night before and how many cigarettes Christina Ricci smoked at various chi-chi eateries", Allentown (PA) Morning Call, Sep. 13, '03 |
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| • | "Christina Ricci takes a cigarette break between television interviews", New York Times, Nov. 9, '03 |
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| • | "[in '97] Christina walked over and sat on my lap, put her arms around my neck, kissed me sweetly on the cheek and asked (irresistibly) if we could walk over to the corner deli for some smokes. Since the photo shoot took several hours, Christina and I were forced to entertain ourselves as best we could -- playing cards, sharing a pack of Newports", Pavement Magazine, '03
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| • | "she goes inside to get changed, returns in a vest and lived-in Earl Jeans, and wonders if it's OK to smoke her friend's last cigarette ... 'I'm actually not afraid of dying,' she says, blowing smoke into the air.", The Observer (UK), Mar. 28, '04
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| • | "What is your current vice? 'Cigarettes and rock stars'", Arena, Jul. '04 |
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| • | "'Cigarettes!' She lunges for a pack on the counter and all in one go, tips into her seat, lights up, tucks her feet up from the floor and shifts her chair closer to the table... takes a drag from her cigarette", Scottish Sunday Herald, Aug. 1, '04
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| • | holds a cigarette for about half of the show, only shown dragging twice with no exhales, second half of the show shown taking a drag/puff from a large cigar then only holding the cigar afterwards, Dinner For Five (IFC), Jun. '05 |
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| • | "Wonder if Reebok knew that a few years ago Ricci's former Hollywood trainer - who shall go unnamed - fired her, making her the only actress client he's ever dumped, because she smoked cigarettes between workouts and missed her morning training sessions due to late night partying", Los Angeles Times, Jul. 25, '06
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| • | "Christina Ricci walking through Soho. Tiny little thing, smoking a cigarette near the corner of Mercer and Houston.", gawker, Nov. 26, '06
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| • | "walking through SoHo, puffing on a cigarette", London Metro (UK), Dec. 8, '06
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| • | "She's already introduced herself with a barrage of courtesies - an apology for arriving late, although she's on time; a promise to extinguish her cigarette should the smoke irritate; and an offer to have lunch inside because of the heat", Premiere magazine, Mar. '07
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| • | "She was unpredictable, fired up with obsessions (Viggo Mortensen, manicures) and pet hates (Salinger, indoor plants) - a swearing, chainsmoking original who rarely repeated herself", Telegraph (UK), Apr. 28, '07
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| • | "As the party went on, Sevigny was seen sneaking out for a cigarette break, as was Christina Ricci", Newsday, May 8, '07
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| • | "Christina Ricci picks up cigarettes and Rockstar energy drinks at a liquor shop in Los Feliz", Pacific Coast News, Jul. 28, '10
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| • | "The chain-smoking, straight-talking actress has said that, at barely 5 feet, she's too short to be a Hollywood A-lister", New York Daily News, Sep. 12, '10
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| • | "Ricci needs a cigarette, but before she'll take a Parliament from her pack, she needs a Diet Coke ... She lights a cigarette and then rolls down her car window", BlackBook, Sep. '10
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| • | "drawing on one of her favoured Parliament cigarettes", Marie Claire, Apr. '12
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| • | "I caught up with Ricci later for an interview. Smoking all the way through...", where?, when?
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| • | "Smoking a Parliament, the teenager is quick to announce when she will quit. 'I have always said that I will quit smoking when I turn twenty because what is the point of smoking if you're not a teenage smoker?'", Texas Triangle Online Edition, when?
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