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 RYDERLooking back – I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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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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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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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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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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I think it’s really important to have a life and have interests outside of this [movie] business, and not rely on this business to validate you as a human being. If you do that, you’re really in a dangerous spot.
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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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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 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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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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I think it’s important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.
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As an actress, you want to try new things. You don’t want to repeat yourself. That becomes more important to you, as you get older.
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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 write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
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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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