You try to get out there and live. I’ve always had good friends who’ve been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I’ve never felt attached to the film industry.
WINONA RYDERI’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.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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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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I’m not a drug user myself. I’m too little to take drugs – my body can’t take it.
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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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Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it’s particularly tough when it’s being documented and you see the person’s picture everywhere. Most people don’t have that added problem when they break up with someone.
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I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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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’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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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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You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.
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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’d always find the positive in someone.
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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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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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My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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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 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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I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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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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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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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 don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
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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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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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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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One thing you have to have when you act is energy.
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Money doesn’t matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn’t make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don’t have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.
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