In America, I don’t know how much longer the environment is going to exist. I sort of strongly believe that we’re in danger.
WINONA RYDERI 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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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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My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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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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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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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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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 try to just pay attention to what I’m feeling. If something is scary to me, then that’s sometimes a good sign – although, sometimes it’s not.
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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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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 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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I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.
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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 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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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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