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 RYDERBreak-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 RYDERI 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 RYDERIt’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.
WINONA RYDERIn America, I don’t know how much longer the environment is going to exist. I sort of strongly believe that we’re in danger.
WINONA RYDERWeird 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 RYDERI was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.
WINONA RYDERWhen 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.
WINONA RYDERI 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.
WINONA RYDERI love my job. But all the stuff that comes with it, the thought of being propelled into the limelight again is not something I sit around and fantasize about, certainly. I’d much rather just do my work, and then go home and read my books and watch movies.
WINONA RYDERI was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
WINONA RYDERThe actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
WINONA RYDERIt’s an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
WINONA RYDERI’d always find the positive in someone.
WINONA RYDERCrazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
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.
WINONA RYDERYou 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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