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.
WINONA RYDERWhat’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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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 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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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 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 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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I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
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Society makes suicide so romantic.
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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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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 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 don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
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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 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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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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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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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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My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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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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I’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.’
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I’m not a drug user myself. I’m too little to take drugs – my body can’t take it.
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I think I really scored with my parents. All of my friends pretty much came from broken homes, and my parents are still together, but not only that, they’re still in love and still write together.
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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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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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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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One thing you have to have when you act is energy.
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