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 RYDERAs 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.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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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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I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
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I want to be a good person, and a person that people enjoy working with, ’cause I certainly enjoy working with other people.
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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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A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.
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I feel my best when I’m happy.
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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 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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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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I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.
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I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.
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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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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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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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