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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.

Winona Ryder

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.
WINONA RYDER

Deep Level Live Money Myself Personal Reality Worry
I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
WINONA RYDER

Father Love Myself Photograph
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.
WINONA RYDER

Business Frustration Personal Print Reading Wrong Yourself
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.
WINONA RYDER

Believe Dangerous Environment Existence Myself
Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
WINONA RYDER

Break Crazy Darkness Myself Secret Yourself
As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don’t really care where it’s seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven’t done before.
WINONA RYDER

Care Goodness Myself Role Story
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.
WINONA RYDER

Business Dangerous Important Interest Life Movie Thinking Yourself
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.
WINONA RYDER

Expensive Goodness Movie Price Word Yourself
You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.
WINONA RYDER

Bad Depression Goodness Yourself
Looking back – I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.
WINONA RYDER

Career Greatness Myself Opportunity Success
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.
WINONA RYDER

Age Break Depression Drama Engagement Remember Yourself
I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.
WINONA RYDER

Act Inspirational Myself People Writing
I don’t want to preach, and I don’t want to tell people what to do.
WINONA RYDER

Lecture Myself People
I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
WINONA RYDER

Desire Myself Publish Writing
When you finally accept that it’s OK not to have answers and it’s OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.
WINONA RYDER

Acceptance Answer Confusion Feeling Human Normal Perfection 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.
WINONA RYDER

Attachment Goodness. Friendship Industry Live Movie Try Yourself

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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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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