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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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.
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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 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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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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Remember, I’m the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I’ve never felt like I’m a big star at any level of my life.
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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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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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One thing you have to have when you act is energy.
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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 books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
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