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I often get offered things that are so similar to things that I have done, and life is too short. When you make a film or a show, as you get older, that’s a lot of time to be doing something that you’re not absolutely invested in or in love with.

Winona Ryder

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.
WINONA RYDER

Famous People Public Scare Touch Yourself
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.
WINONA RYDER

Fall Flaw Important Learning Life Myself Secret
I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.
WINONA RYDER

Flaw Learning Myself Self Love
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
The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.
WINONA RYDER

Old People Thinking Worry 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
You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.
WINONA RYDER

Bad Depression Goodness Yourself
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.
WINONA RYDER

Actor Important Old Repeat Yourself
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
My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
WINONA RYDER

Believe Death Father Myself Religion
I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
WINONA RYDER

Father Love Myself Photograph
The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
WINONA RYDER

Actor People Soul Thinking 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.
WINONA RYDER

Business Dangerous Important Interest Life Movie Thinking Yourself
I try to just pay attention to what I’m feeling. If something is scary to me, then that’s sometimes a good sign – although, sometimes it’s not.
WINONA RYDER

Attention Feeling Goodness Myself Pay Scare Try
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 often get offered things that are so similar to things that I have done, and life is too short. When you make a film or a show, as you get older, that’s a lot of time to be doing something that you’re not absolutely invested in or in love with.

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I often get offered things that are so similar to things that I have done, and life is too short. When you make a film or a show, as you get older, that’s a lot of time to be doing something that you’re not absolutely invested in or in love with.

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