I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
WINONA RYDERIt’s an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they – at least the ones that I know personally – have been waiting for something that doesn’t completely insult them.
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I’m not a drug user myself. I’m too little to take drugs – my body can’t take it.
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I often get offered things that are so similar to things that I have done, and life is too short. When you make a film or a show, as you get older, that’s a lot of time to be doing something that you’re not absolutely invested in or in love with.
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Looking back – I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.
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I love my job. But all the stuff that comes with it, the thought of being propelled into the limelight again is not something I sit around and fantasize about, certainly. I’d much rather just do my work, and then go home and read my books and watch movies.
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When you finally accept that it’s OK not to have answers and it’s OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.
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Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame – illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.
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I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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I feel my best when I’m happy.
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I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.
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I’m quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I’ve been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.
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I don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
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I would love to someday do a play. I did one when I was very young in San Francisco, where I grew up. A girl can dream.
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I think I really scored with my parents. All of my friends pretty much came from broken homes, and my parents are still together, but not only that, they’re still in love and still write together.
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I’m the type who’d rather not work than work on something I’m not into. I’ve done that a couple of times, and I feel like I can totally see it in my performance.
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In America, I don’t know how much longer the environment is going to exist. I sort of strongly believe that we’re in danger.
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The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.
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I think it’s important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.
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I remember the whole thing with the word ambition. I was messed up for a while because I associated it with certain people who just want to be famous. I think, for a while, it was kind of a dirty word for women.
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One thing you have to have when you act is energy.
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It’s part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what’s been printed about me.
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It’s just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.
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That’s an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don’t want to have other people read about.
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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.
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