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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.

Winona Ryder

One thing you have to have when you act is energy.
WINONA RYDER

Act Energy Movie Oneself
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.
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Fantasy Job Light Love Movie Myself Thinking Work
It’s an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
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Emotion Kind Love Ourselves Sad Society Story
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
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
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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Best Business Important Life Movie Myself Personal
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
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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Actor Important Old Repeat Yourself
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’d always find the positive in someone.
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Myself One Liner Perspective Positive
I think I really scored with my parents. All of my friends pretty much came from broken homes, and my parents are still together, but not only that, they’re still in love and still write together.
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Friendship Love Myself Parents Thinking Togetherness Writing
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
The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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Actor People Soul Thinking Yourself
Society makes suicide so romantic.
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Fake Movie Romantic Society Suicide
I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.
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Beautiful Believe Fiction Myself Religious
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

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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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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