One thing you have to have when you act is energy.
WINONA RYDERPeople 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.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
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Remember, I’m the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I’ve never felt like I’m a big star at any level of my life.
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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 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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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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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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You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.
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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 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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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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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’d always find the positive in someone.
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I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.
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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.
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You can’t pay enough money to cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
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