I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
WINONA RYDERI don’t want to preach, and I don’t want to tell people what to do.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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I don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
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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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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 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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A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It’s still in the back of my mind.
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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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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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When you finally accept that it’s OK not to have answers and it’s OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.
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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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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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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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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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Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
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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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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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You can’t pay enough money to cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
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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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You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.
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I think it’s really important to have a life outside of this [movie] business and just be the best person you can be.
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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 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 exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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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’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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My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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I’m very attached to movie theaters and I love going to them. Nothing will ever replace that. It’s very romantic and beautiful. I used to want to live inside of one, with a bathtub, a bike and a bed, and just watch movies.
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