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 RYDERI have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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I think it’s really important to have a life outside of this [movie] business and just be the best person you can be.
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I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
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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 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 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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Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame – illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.
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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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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’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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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’m quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I’ve been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.
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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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I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.
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My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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Money doesn’t matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn’t make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don’t have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.
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