I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
WINONA RYDERCrazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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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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Money doesn’t matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn’t make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don’t have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.
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I’d always find the positive in someone.
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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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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 was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.
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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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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 love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
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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 think I really scored with my parents. All of my friends pretty much came from broken homes, and my parents are still together, but not only that, they’re still in love and still write together.
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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 don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
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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 have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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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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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 love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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 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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