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 RYDERI’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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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 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 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 don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
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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 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.
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My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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Society makes suicide so romantic.
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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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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.
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I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.
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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 have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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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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As an actress, you want to try new things. You don’t want to repeat yourself. That becomes more important to you, as you get older.
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