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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.

Winona Ryder

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.
WINONA RYDER

Book Home Myself Reading Remember Skin Start Stay
I 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.
WINONA RYDER

Doubt Myself Regard Scare School Time
I 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.
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Ambition Dirty Famous Kind Mess Myself People Remember Woman Word
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.
WINONA RYDER

Deep Level Live Money Myself Personal Reality Worry
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.
WINONA RYDER

Business Dangerous Important Interest Life Movie Thinking Yourself
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.
WINONA RYDER

Fantasy Job Light Love Movie Myself Thinking Work
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 RYDER

Believe Dangerous Environment Existence Myself
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.
WINONA RYDER

Dreams Growth Love Myself Play Woman Young
I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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Growth Myself Start
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.
WINONA RYDER

Couple Feeling Movie Myself Performance See Time Type Work
You can’t pay enough money to cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
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Break Confusion Cure Enough Feeling Money Pay Yourself
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 RYDER

Care Goodness Myself Role Story
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.
WINONA RYDER

Alone Moments Myself People Reading Value Weird
I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.
WINONA RYDER

Act Inspirational Myself People Writing
I’m not a drug user myself. I’m too little to take drugs – my body can’t take it.
WINONA RYDER

Body Drugs Myself
I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
WINONA RYDER

Desire Myself Publish Writing

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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