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You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

Winona Ryder

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.
WINONA RYDER

Expensive Goodness Movie Price Word Yourself
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.
WINONA RYDER

Break Up Hard Person Picture Problem Tough
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 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
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 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
My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
WINONA RYDER

Believe Death Father Myself Religion
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.
WINONA RYDER

Doubt Myself Regard Scare School Time
Society makes suicide so romantic.
WINONA RYDER

Fake Movie Romantic Society Suicide
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.
WINONA RYDER

Ambition Dirty Famous Kind Mess Myself People Remember Woman Word
You try to get out there and live. I’ve always had good friends who’ve been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I’ve never felt attached to the film industry.
WINONA RYDER

Attachment Goodness. Friendship Industry Live Movie Try Yourself
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 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.
WINONA RYDER

Book Greatness Myself Novel Reading Religious Way Writing Wrong
I’d always find the positive in someone.
WINONA RYDER

Myself One Liner Perspective Positive
I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
WINONA RYDER

Desire Myself Publish Writing
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.
WINONA RYDER

Dreams Growth Love Myself Play Woman Young

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

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