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.
WINONA RYDERI love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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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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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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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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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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Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
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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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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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I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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I don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
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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 love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
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I’ve loved making movies. I feel like I’ve been so lucky because I’ve gotten to be in movies that are some of my favorites, regardless of my being in them – like ‘Heathers.’
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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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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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It’s an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
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