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.
WINONA RYDERI 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.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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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’m not a drug user myself. I’m too little to take drugs – my body can’t take it.
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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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Looking back – I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.
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I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.
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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 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 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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I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
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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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I feel my best when I’m happy.
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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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I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
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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’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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