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You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.

Winona Ryder

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
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
One thing you have to have when you act is energy.
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Act Energy Movie Oneself
Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame – illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.
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Blame Forever Illegal Mom Need Prison Victim
I love my job. But all the stuff that comes with it, the thought of being propelled into the limelight again is not something I sit around and fantasize about, certainly. I’d much rather just do my work, and then go home and read my books and watch movies.
WINONA RYDER

Fantasy Job Light Love Movie Myself Thinking Work
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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Investment Life Movie Offering Old Short Yourself
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.
WINONA RYDER

Attachment Goodness. Friendship Industry Live Movie Try Yourself
People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they – at least the ones that I know personally – have been waiting for something that doesn’t completely insult them.
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Insult Movie Myself People Personal Thinking
You can’t pay enough money to cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
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Break Confusion Cure Enough Feeling Money Pay Yourself
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 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
My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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Believe Death Father Myself Religion
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.
WINONA RYDER

Celebrity Interest Life Myself Process Wild
For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.
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Actor Move Myself Occupation Shallow Shame Time
A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.
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Different Fashion Myself Woman
A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It’s still in the back of my mind.
WINONA RYDER

Mindset Movie Myself Old Sad

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