Christina Ricci's A Bad Flirt

Hollywood actress Christina Ricci is attempting to overcome a grave problem - she's a terrible flirt.

Successfully grabbing the attention of the opposite sex is a skill she's yet to master - and the actress remains a very clumsy learner.

Ricci says, "When I like a guy, sometimes I'll be sarcastic and that can backfire on me. Boys don't understand that I'm just trying to flirt."

And her misjudgment has also led to disastrous dates.

She recalls, "There was this hot guy who I really wanted to go out with. I threw in a couple of SAT-vocabulary type words during our conversation, and he said, 'You like to use big words, don't you?' Doing that is just kind of a fun game we play in my family.

"And when I told this guy that my upcoming movie Prozac Nation was based on Elizabeth Wurtzel's book, he said, 'I don't read books.' That was it for me."