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.
WINONA RYDERRemember, 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.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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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 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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I’d always find the positive in someone.
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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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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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You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.
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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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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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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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Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
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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 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 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.
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I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
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Society makes suicide so romantic.
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