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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

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 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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Ambition Dirty Famous Kind Mess Myself People Remember Woman Word
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.
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Attachment Goodness. Friendship Industry Live Movie Try 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
I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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Depression Myself Terrible
One thing you have to have when you act is energy.
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Act Energy Movie Oneself
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
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.
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Age Break Depression Drama Engagement Remember Yourself
I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn’t go out.
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Book Home Myself Reading Remember Skin Start Stay
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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Celebrity Interest Life Myself Process Wild
I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
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Father Love Myself Photograph
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
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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Fall Flaw Important Learning Life Myself Secret
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
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
Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it’s particularly tough when it’s being documented and you see the person’s picture everywhere. Most people don’t have that added problem when they break up with someone.
WINONA RYDER

Break Up Hard Person Picture Problem Tough

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.

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