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 RYDERI 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.
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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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 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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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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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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A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.
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I don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
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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 can’t pay enough money to cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
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I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.
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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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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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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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I’m not a drug user myself. I’m too little to take drugs – my body can’t take it.
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The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.
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I try to just pay attention to what I’m feeling. If something is scary to me, then that’s sometimes a good sign – although, sometimes it’s not.
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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 think it’s important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.
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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.
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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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In America, I don’t know how much longer the environment is going to exist. I sort of strongly believe that we’re in danger.
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I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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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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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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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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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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