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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More Winona Ryder Quotes
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I’m the type who’d rather not work than work on something I’m not into. I’ve done that a couple of times, and I feel like I can totally see it in my performance.
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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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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 was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.
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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’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 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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You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.
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My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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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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I love my job. But all the stuff that comes with it, the thought of being propelled into the limelight again is not something I sit around and fantasize about, certainly. I’d much rather just do my work, and then go home and read my books and watch movies.
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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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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.
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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.
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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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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 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 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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I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
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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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One thing you have to have when you act is energy.
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I don’t want to preach, and I don’t want to tell people what to do.
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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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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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I’d always find the positive in someone.
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