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 RYDERThe actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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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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As an actress, you want to try new things. You don’t want to repeat yourself. That becomes more important to you, as you get older.
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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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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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Weird people follow you in the streets, you can’t sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.
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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.
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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.
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It’s just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.
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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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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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You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.
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I don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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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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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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