I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
WINONA RYDERI 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.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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I’ve read the Bible. I think the Bible’s a great book, but it’s a novel. It’s beautifully written and la-di-da, but people really took it the wrong way.
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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 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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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 exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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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’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.
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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’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’d always find the positive in someone.
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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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You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.
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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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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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I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
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