You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.
WINONA RYDERYou go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.
WINONA RYDERYou 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 don’t want to preach, and I don’t want to tell people what to do.
WINONA RYDERThe older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.
WINONA RYDERI’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.’
WINONA RYDERI 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.
WINONA RYDERI was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.
WINONA RYDERPeople 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.
WINONA RYDERA woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.
WINONA RYDERYou can’t pay enough money to cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
WINONA RYDERI want to be a good person, and a person that people enjoy working with, ’cause I certainly enjoy working with other people.
WINONA RYDERI love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
WINONA RYDERI 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.
WINONA RYDERI 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.
WINONA RYDERI was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
WINONA RYDERRemember, 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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