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.
WINONA RYDERMy father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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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 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 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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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 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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Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
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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’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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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 am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.
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I think I really scored with my parents. All of my friends pretty much came from broken homes, and my parents are still together, but not only that, they’re still in love and still write together.
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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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As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don’t really care where it’s seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven’t done before.
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I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
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I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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