Looking back – I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.
WINONA RYDERIt’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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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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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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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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I’ve loved making movies. I feel like I’ve been so lucky because I’ve gotten to be in movies that are some of my favorites, regardless of my being in them – like ‘Heathers.’
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I’m quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I’ve been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.
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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 was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.
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I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.
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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 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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I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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I don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
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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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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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