You do a movie if it’s good and if you want to do it. It doesn’t matter if it’s small or big or expensive or cheap. If you want to say the words, you’re gonna say them. You can’t strategize.
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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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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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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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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I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.
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As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don’t really care where it’s seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven’t done before.
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I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.
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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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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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Looking back – I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.
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My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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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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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 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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