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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.

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.
WINONA RYDER

Actor Move Myself Occupation Shallow Shame Time
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.
WINONA RYDER

Business Frustration Personal Print Reading Wrong Yourself
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
My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
WINONA RYDER

Believe Death Father Myself Religion
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.
WINONA RYDER

Couple Feeling Movie Myself Performance See Time Type Work
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.
WINONA RYDER

Alone Moments Myself People Reading Value Weird
A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.
WINONA RYDER

Different Fashion Myself Woman
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.
WINONA RYDER

Dreams Growth Love Myself Play Woman Young
I’m very attached to movie theaters and I love going to them. Nothing will ever replace that. It’s very romantic and beautiful. I used to want to live inside of one, with a bathtub, a bike and a bed, and just watch movies.
WINONA RYDER

Attachment Beautiful Movie Myself Replacement Romantic
I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.
WINONA RYDER

Flaw Learning Myself Self Love
I’ve read the Bible. I think the Bible’s a great book, but it’s a novel. It’s beautifully written and la-di-da, but people really took it the wrong way.
WINONA RYDER

Book Greatness Myself Novel Reading Religious Way Writing Wrong
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.
WINONA RYDER

Fantasy Job Light Love Movie Myself Thinking Work
Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame – illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.
WINONA RYDER

Blame Forever Illegal Mom Need Prison Victim
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.
WINONA RYDER

Acceptance Answer Confusion Feeling Human Normal Perfection Yourself
You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.
WINONA RYDER

Bad Depression Goodness Yourself
The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.
WINONA RYDER

Old People Thinking Worry 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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