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 RYDERI’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.
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I think I really scored with my parents. All of my friends pretty much came from broken homes, and my parents are still together, but not only that, they’re still in love and still write together.
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Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it’s particularly tough when it’s being documented and you see the person’s picture everywhere. Most people don’t have that added problem when they break up with someone.
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In America, I don’t know how much longer the environment is going to exist. I sort of strongly believe that we’re in danger.
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A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.
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The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.
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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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I try to just pay attention to what I’m feeling. If something is scary to me, then that’s sometimes a good sign – although, sometimes it’s not.
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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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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’d always find the positive in someone.
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You can’t pay enough money to cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
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It’s just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.
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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.
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I don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
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Society makes suicide so romantic.
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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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I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.
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I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
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Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
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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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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 often get offered things that are so similar to things that I have done, and life is too short. When you make a film or a show, as you get older, that’s a lot of time to be doing something that you’re not absolutely invested in or in love with.
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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’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.
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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.
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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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