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 RYDERI’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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Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
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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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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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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.
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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 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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I don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
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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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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’m not a drug user myself. I’m too little to take drugs – my body can’t take it.
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You can’t pay enough money to cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
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I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.
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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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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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