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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.

Winona Ryder

It’s just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.
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Actor Celebrity Crowd Disappear Enjoyment Notice People
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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Celebrity Interest Life Myself Process Wild
I don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
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Information Internet Yourself
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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Doubt Myself Regard Scare School Time
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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Insult Movie Myself People Personal Thinking
Society makes suicide so romantic.
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Fake Movie Romantic Society Suicide
I’m not a drug user myself. I’m too little to take drugs – my body can’t take it.
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Body Drugs Myself
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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Fantasy Job Light Love Movie Myself Thinking Work
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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Alone Moments Myself People Reading Value Weird
I don’t want to preach, and I don’t want to tell people what to do.
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Lecture Myself People
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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Blame Forever Illegal Mom Need Prison Victim
I feel my best when I’m happy.
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Best Feeling Happiness One Liner
I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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Growth Myself Start
A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.
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Different Fashion Myself Woman
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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Expensive Goodness Movie Price Word Yourself
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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Famous People Public Scare Touch Yourself
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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Act Inspirational Myself People Writing
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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Couple Feeling Movie Myself Performance See Time Type Work
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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Mindset Movie Myself Old Sad
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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Attachment Beautiful Movie Myself Replacement Romantic
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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Actor Important Old Repeat Yourself
One thing you have to have when you act is energy.
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Act Energy Movie Oneself
I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
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Desire Myself Publish Writing
I’m quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I’ve been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.
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Camera Children Comfortable Movie Myself Quite
My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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Believe Death Father Myself Religion
The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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Actor People Soul Thinking Yourself
I’ve loved making movies. I feel like I’ve been so lucky because I’ve gotten to be in movies that are some of my favorites, regardless of my being in them – like ‘Heathers.’
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Feeling Love Movie Myself Regard

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 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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