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I think it’s important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.

Winona Ryder

I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
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Book Favorite Love Myself Sound
I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.
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Beautiful Believe Fiction Myself Religious
My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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Believe Death Father Myself Religion
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.
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Attachment Goodness. Friendship Industry Live Movie Try Yourself
I feel my best when I’m happy.
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Best Feeling Happiness One Liner
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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Friendship Love Myself Parents Thinking Togetherness Writing
The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.
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Old People Thinking Worry Yourself
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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Emotion Kind Love Ourselves Sad Society Story
You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.
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Feeling Sensitive Talk World Yourself
Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
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Break Crazy Darkness Myself Secret Yourself
Looking back – I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.
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Career Greatness Myself Opportunity Success
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
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
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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Ambition Dirty Famous Kind Mess Myself People Remember Woman Word
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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Care Goodness Myself Role Story
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
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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Actor Move Myself Occupation Shallow Shame Time
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
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 have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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Growth Myself Start
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
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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Break Up Hard Person Picture Problem Tough
You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.
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Bad Depression Goodness Yourself
I think it’s important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.
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Important Life Normal Run Thinking Work Yourself
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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Book Home Myself Reading Remember Skin Start Stay
That’s an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don’t want to have other people read about.
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Business Frustration Personal Print Reading Wrong Yourself
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

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