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What’s awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That’s scary, and they just seem to think it’s okay to do it, like you’re public property.

Winona Ryder

Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
WINONA RYDER

Break Crazy Darkness Myself Secret Yourself
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.
WINONA RYDER

Fall Flaw Important Learning Life Myself Secret
The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.
WINONA RYDER

Old People Thinking Worry Yourself
The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
WINONA RYDER

Actor People Soul Thinking Yourself
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.
WINONA RYDER

Fantasy Job Light Love Movie Myself Thinking Work
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.
WINONA RYDER

Care Goodness Myself Role Story
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.
WINONA RYDER

Insult Movie Myself People Personal Thinking
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.
WINONA RYDER

Acceptance Answer Confusion Feeling Human Normal Perfection Yourself
I feel my best when I’m happy.
WINONA RYDER

Best Feeling Happiness One Liner
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.
WINONA RYDER

Actor Move Myself Occupation Shallow Shame Time
I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.
WINONA RYDER

Act Inspirational Myself People Writing
I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
WINONA RYDER

Desire Myself Publish Writing
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.
WINONA RYDER

Investment Life Movie Offering Old Short Yourself
I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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Depression Myself Terrible
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.
WINONA RYDER

Camera Children Comfortable Movie Myself Quite
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.
WINONA RYDER

Bad Experience Goodness Person Regret Thinking Weird

What’s awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That’s scary, and they just seem to think it’s okay to do it, like you’re public property.

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What’s awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That’s scary, and they just seem to think it’s okay to do it, like you’re public property.

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