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.
WINONA RYDERA woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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I don’t want to preach, and I don’t want to tell people what to do.
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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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One thing you have to have when you act is energy.
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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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I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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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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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 was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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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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I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
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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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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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Society makes suicide so romantic.
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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.
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It’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.
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