I’m not a drug user myself. I’m too little to take drugs – my body can’t take it.
WINONA RYDERWhat’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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You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.
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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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Weird people follow you in the streets, you can’t sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.
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I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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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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I don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
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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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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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My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.
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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 was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.
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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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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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Society makes suicide so romantic.
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I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.
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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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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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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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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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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 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’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 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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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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