I love my job. But all the stuff that comes with it, the thought of being propelled into the limelight again is not something I sit around and fantasize about, certainly. I’d much rather just do my work, and then go home and read my books and watch movies.
WINONA RYDERI 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.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.
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You can’t pay enough money to cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
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I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
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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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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.
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I’d always find the positive in someone.
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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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You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.
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Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
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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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I’ve loved making movies. I feel like I’ve been so lucky because I’ve gotten to be in movies that are some of my favorites, regardless of my being in them – like ‘Heathers.’
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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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Society makes suicide so romantic.
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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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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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