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 RYDERWeird 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.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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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’d always find the positive in someone.
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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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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 love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
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I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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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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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 don’t want to preach, and I don’t want to tell people what to do.
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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 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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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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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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You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.
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It’s part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what’s been printed about me.
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