I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.
WINONA RYDERYou try to get out there and live. I’ve always had good friends who’ve been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I’ve never felt attached to the film industry.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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I feel my best when I’m happy.
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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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A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.
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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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You try to get out there and live. I’ve always had good friends who’ve been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I’ve never felt attached to the film industry.
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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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I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
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I don’t want to preach, and I don’t want to tell people what to do.
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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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Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
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I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.
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I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.
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You can’t pay enough money to cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
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I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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I think it’s really important to have a life and have interests outside of this [movie] business, and not rely on this business to validate you as a human being. If you do that, you’re really in a dangerous spot.
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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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I’ve read the Bible. I think the Bible’s a great book, but it’s a novel. It’s beautifully written and la-di-da, but people really took it the wrong way.
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Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it’s particularly tough when it’s being documented and you see the person’s picture everywhere. Most people don’t have that added problem when they break up with someone.
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You do a movie if it’s good and if you want to do it. It doesn’t matter if it’s small or big or expensive or cheap. If you want to say the words, you’re gonna say them. You can’t strategize.
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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 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 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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I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn’t go out.
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I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.
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I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
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It’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.
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