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

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I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
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Father Love Myself Photograph
I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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Depression Myself Terrible
I think it’s really important to have a life outside of this [movie] business and just be the best person you can be.
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When you finally accept that it’s OK not to have answers and it’s OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.
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Society makes suicide so romantic.
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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.
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Dreams Growth Love Myself Play Woman Young
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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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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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 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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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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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’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
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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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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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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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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Looking back – I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.
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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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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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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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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
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 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 have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.
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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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Remember, I’m the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I’ve never felt like I’m a big star at any level of my life.
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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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