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.
WINONA RYDERI feel my best when I’m happy.
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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You try to get out there and live. I’ve always had good friends who’ve been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I’ve never felt attached to the film industry.
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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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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’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.
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You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.
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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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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 have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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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 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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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’m not a drug user myself. I’m too little to take drugs – my body can’t take it.
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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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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 think it’s really important to have a life and have interests outside of this [movie] business, and not rely on this business to validate you as a human being. If you do that, you’re really in a dangerous spot.
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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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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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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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My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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That’s an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don’t want to have other people read about.
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I’d always find the positive in someone.
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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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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 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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