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.
WINONA RYDERI was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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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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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 don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
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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’m very attached to movie theaters and I love going to them. Nothing will ever replace that. It’s very romantic and beautiful. I used to want to live inside of one, with a bathtub, a bike and a bed, and just watch movies.
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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 love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
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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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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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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’d always find the positive in someone.
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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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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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