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A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.

Winona Ryder

I don’t want to preach, and I don’t want to tell people what to do.
WINONA RYDER

Lecture Myself People
Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame – illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.
WINONA RYDER

Blame Forever Illegal Mom Need Prison Victim
My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
WINONA RYDER

Believe Death Father Myself Religion
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.
WINONA RYDER

Insult Movie Myself People Personal Thinking
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.
WINONA RYDER

Business Dangerous Important Interest Life Movie Thinking Yourself
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.
WINONA RYDER

Business Frustration Personal Print Reading Wrong Yourself
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.
WINONA RYDER

Dreams Growth Love Myself Play Woman Young
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.
WINONA RYDER

Important Life Normal Run Thinking Work Yourself
I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.
WINONA RYDER

Fall Flaw Important Learning Life Myself Secret
I try to just pay attention to what I’m feeling. If something is scary to me, then that’s sometimes a good sign – although, sometimes it’s not.
WINONA RYDER

Attention Feeling Goodness Myself Pay Scare Try
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.
WINONA RYDER

Friendship Love Myself Parents Thinking Togetherness Writing
I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
WINONA RYDER

Desire Myself Publish Writing
I want to be a good person, and a person that people enjoy working with, ’cause I certainly enjoy working with other people.
WINONA RYDER

Goodness Myself People Person Work
I think it’s really important to have a life outside of this [movie] business and just be the best person you can be.
WINONA RYDER

Best Business Important Life Movie Myself Personal
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.
WINONA RYDER

Actor Important Old Repeat Yourself
I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
WINONA RYDER

Depression Myself Terrible
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 RYDER

Alone Moments Myself People Reading Value Weird
You can’t pay enough money to cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
WINONA RYDER

Break Confusion Cure Enough Feeling Money Pay Yourself
I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
WINONA RYDER

Father Love Myself Photograph
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 RYDER

Attachment Goodness. Friendship Industry Live Movie Try Yourself
I’m not a drug user myself. I’m too little to take drugs – my body can’t take it.
WINONA RYDER

Body Drugs Myself
I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.
WINONA RYDER

Flaw Learning Myself Self Love
I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.
WINONA RYDER

Beautiful Believe Fiction Myself Religious
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.
WINONA RYDER

Age Break Depression Drama Engagement Remember Yourself
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 RYDER

Actor Move Myself Occupation Shallow Shame Time
A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.
WINONA RYDER

Different Fashion Myself Woman
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.
WINONA RYDER

Investment Life Movie Offering Old Short Yourself

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