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Society makes suicide so romantic.

Winona Ryder

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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Investment Life Movie Offering Old Short Yourself
I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
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Father Love Myself Photograph
I don’t want to preach, and I don’t want to tell people what to do.
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Lecture Myself People
You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.
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Bad Depression Goodness Yourself
I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
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Book Favorite Love Myself Sound
As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don’t really care where it’s seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven’t done before.
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Care Goodness Myself Role Story
I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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Depression Myself Terrible
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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Actor Celebrity Crowd Disappear Enjoyment Notice People
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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Goodness Myself People Person Work
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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Book Home Myself Reading Remember Skin Start Stay
My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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Believe Death Father Myself Religion
I’m not a drug user myself. I’m too little to take drugs – my body can’t take it.
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Body Drugs Myself
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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Insult Movie Myself People Personal Thinking
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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Business Frustration Personal Print Reading Wrong Yourself
I think it’s really important to have a life outside of this [movie] business and just be the best person you can be.
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Best Business Important Life Movie Myself Personal
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.
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Age Break Depression Drama Engagement Remember Yourself
I feel my best when I’m happy.
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Best Feeling Happiness One Liner
I’ve loved making movies. I feel like I’ve been so lucky because I’ve gotten to be in movies that are some of my favorites, regardless of my being in them – like ‘Heathers.’
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Feeling Love Movie Myself Regard
For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.
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Actor Move Myself Occupation Shallow Shame Time
I’d always find the positive in someone.
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Myself One Liner Perspective Positive
The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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Actor People Soul Thinking Yourself
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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Ambition Dirty Famous Kind Mess Myself People Remember Woman Word
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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Camera Children Comfortable Movie Myself Quite
Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
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Break Crazy Darkness Myself Secret Yourself
Society makes suicide so romantic.
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Fake Movie Romantic Society Suicide
Remember, I’m the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I’ve never felt like I’m a big star at any level of my life.
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Big Children Kind Life Myself Remember School Stardom
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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