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.
WINONA RYDERI 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.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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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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I’m very attached to movie theaters and I love going to them. Nothing will ever replace that. It’s very romantic and beautiful. I used to want to live inside of one, with a bathtub, a bike and a bed, and just watch movies.
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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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I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.
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My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t want to preach, and I don’t want to tell people what to do.
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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 write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
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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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Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
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