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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.

Winona Ryder

I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
WINONA RYDER

Book Favorite Love Myself Sound
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

Ambition Dirty Famous Kind Mess Myself People Remember Woman Word
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.’
WINONA RYDER

Feeling Love Movie Myself Regard
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
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
I think it’s important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.
WINONA RYDER

Important Life Normal Run Thinking Work Yourself
I’m not a drug user myself. I’m too little to take drugs – my body can’t take it.
WINONA RYDER

Body Drugs Myself
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
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.
WINONA RYDER

Alone Moments Myself People Reading Value Weird
Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame – illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.
WINONA RYDER

Blame Forever Illegal Mom Need Prison Victim
The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
WINONA RYDER

Actor People Soul Thinking Yourself
I don’t want to preach, and I don’t want to tell people what to do.
WINONA RYDER

Lecture Myself People
I’m the type who’d rather not work than work on something I’m not into. I’ve done that a couple of times, and I feel like I can totally see it in my performance.
WINONA RYDER

Couple Feeling Movie Myself Performance See Time Type Work
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.
WINONA RYDER

Emotion Kind Love Ourselves Sad Society Story
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.
WINONA RYDER

Big Children Kind Life Myself Remember School Stardom
I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.
WINONA RYDER

Beautiful Believe Fiction Myself Religious

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