Looking back – I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.
WINONA RYDERAs 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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Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
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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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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.
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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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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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My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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I’m not a drug user myself. I’m too little to take drugs – my body can’t take it.
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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.
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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.
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Society makes suicide so romantic.
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I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.
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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.
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I think it’s really important to have a life outside of this [movie] business and just be the best person you can be.
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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.
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