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 RYDERYou can’t pay enough money to cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
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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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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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I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.
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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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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.
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My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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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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I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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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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One thing you have to have when you act is energy.
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Society makes suicide so romantic.
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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.
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You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.
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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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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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