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 RYDERYou go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.
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I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
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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.
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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’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.
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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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I think it’s really important to have a life and have interests outside of this [movie] business, and not rely on this business to validate you as a human being. If you do that, you’re really in a dangerous spot.
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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 go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.
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One thing you have to have when you act is energy.
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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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I’m not a drug user myself. I’m too little to take drugs – my body can’t take it.
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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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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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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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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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