You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.
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 don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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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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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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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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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 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 don’t want to preach, and I don’t want to tell people what to do.
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I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
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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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Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
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I think it’s really important to have a life and have interests outside of this [movie] business, and not rely on this business to validate you as a human being. If you do that, you’re really in a dangerous spot.
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Society makes suicide so romantic.
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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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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 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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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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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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When you finally accept that it’s OK not to have answers and it’s OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.
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You can’t pay enough money to cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
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I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
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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 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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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.
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