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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

I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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Growth Myself Start
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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Bad Experience Goodness Person Regret Thinking Weird
A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.
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Different Fashion Myself Woman
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.
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Actor Move Myself Occupation Shallow Shame Time
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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Doubt Myself Regard Scare School Time
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.
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Alone Moments Myself People Reading Value Weird
A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It’s still in the back of my mind.
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Mindset Movie Myself Old Sad
I’ve read the Bible. I think the Bible’s a great book, but it’s a novel. It’s beautifully written and la-di-da, but people really took it the wrong way.
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Book Greatness Myself Novel Reading Religious Way Writing Wrong
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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Emotion Kind Love Ourselves Sad Society Story
What’s awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That’s scary, and they just seem to think it’s okay to do it, like you’re public property.
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Famous People Public Scare Touch Yourself
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.
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Attachment Goodness. Friendship Industry Live Movie Try Yourself
I’d always find the positive in someone.
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Myself One Liner Perspective Positive
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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Best Business Important Life Movie Myself Personal
I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.
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Beautiful Believe Fiction Myself Religious
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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Fall Flaw Important Learning Life Myself Secret
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.
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Actor Important Old Repeat Yourself
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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Business Dangerous Important Interest Life Movie Thinking Yourself
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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Big Children Kind Life Myself Remember School Stardom
I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
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Book Favorite Love Myself Sound
I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
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Father Love Myself Photograph
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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Act Inspirational Myself People Writing
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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Break Up Hard Person Picture Problem Tough
You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.
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Bad Depression Goodness Yourself
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.
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Insult Movie Myself People Personal Thinking
Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
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Break Crazy Darkness Myself Secret Yourself
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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Old People Thinking Worry Yourself
I don’t want to preach, and I don’t want to tell people what to do.
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Lecture Myself People

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