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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 Ryder

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 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 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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Age Break Depression Drama Engagement Remember Yourself
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 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.
WINONA RYDER

Business Dangerous Important Interest Life Movie Thinking Yourself
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
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 was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.
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Beautiful Believe Fiction Myself Religious
I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
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Desire Myself Publish Writing
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
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 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
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
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 RYDER

Attachment Goodness. Friendship Industry Live Movie Try Yourself
I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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Depression Myself Terrible
I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.
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Fall Flaw Important Learning Life Myself Secret

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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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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