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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

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
I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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Growth Myself Start
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.
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Believe Dangerous Environment Existence Myself
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
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 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

Investment Life Movie Offering Old Short Yourself
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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Business Frustration Personal Print Reading Wrong Yourself
I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
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Desire Myself Publish Writing
I don’t want to preach, and I don’t want to tell people what to do.
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Lecture Myself People
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 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
I think it’s really important to have a life outside of this [movie] business and just be the best person you can be.
WINONA RYDER

Best Business Important Life Movie Myself Personal
Looking back – I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.
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Career Greatness Myself Opportunity Success
I would love to someday do a play. I did one when I was very young in San Francisco, where I grew up. A girl can dream.
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Dreams Growth Love Myself Play Woman Young
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
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
I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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Depression Myself Terrible
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.
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Expensive Goodness Movie Price Word Yourself
You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.
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Feeling Sensitive Talk World Yourself
One thing you have to have when you act is energy.
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Act Energy Movie Oneself
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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Feeling Love Movie Myself Regard
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.
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Couple Feeling Movie Myself Performance See Time Type Work
I’m not a drug user myself. I’m too little to take drugs – my body can’t take it.
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Body Drugs Myself
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
I’d always find the positive in someone.
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Myself One Liner Perspective Positive
My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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Believe Death Father Myself Religion
I’m very attached to movie theaters and I love going to them. Nothing will ever replace that. It’s very romantic and beautiful. I used to want to live inside of one, with a bathtub, a bike and a bed, and just watch movies.
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Attachment Beautiful Movie Myself Replacement Romantic

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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