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 RYDERI’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.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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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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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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You can’t pay enough money to cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
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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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A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It’s still in the back of my mind.
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I’d always find the positive in someone.
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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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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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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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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’m not a drug user myself. I’m too little to take drugs – my body can’t take it.
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I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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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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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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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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