I think it’s really important to have a life outside of this [movie] business and just be the best person you can be.
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 want to be a good person, and a person that people enjoy working with, ’cause I certainly enjoy working with other people.
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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.
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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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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 have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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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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You can’t pay enough money to cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
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My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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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’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’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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Money doesn’t matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn’t make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don’t have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.
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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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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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