I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.
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.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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Looking back – I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.
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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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I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.
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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 not a drug user myself. I’m too little to take drugs – my body can’t take 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 have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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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 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 love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
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I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
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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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I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn’t go out.
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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.
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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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