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.
WINONA RYDERI was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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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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As an actress, you want to try new things. You don’t want to repeat yourself. That becomes more important to you, as you get older.
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What’s awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That’s scary, and they just seem to think it’s okay to do it, like you’re public property.
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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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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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I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
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You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.
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I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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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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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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A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It’s still in the back of my mind.
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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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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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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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