I think it’s really important to have a life outside of this [movie] business and just be the best person you can be.
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 was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.
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I 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.
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Money doesn’t matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn’t make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don’t have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.
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You can’t pay enough money to cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
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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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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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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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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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Weird people follow you in the streets, you can’t sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.
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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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You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.
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Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
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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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My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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