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.
WINONA RYDERI write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.
More Winona Ryder Quotes
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You can’t pay enough money to cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
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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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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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Remember, I’m the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I’ve never felt like I’m a big star at any level of my life.
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I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.
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That’s an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don’t want to have other people read about.
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You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.
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Looking back – I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.
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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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Society makes suicide so romantic.
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I feel my best when I’m happy.
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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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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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Weird people follow you in the streets, you can’t sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.
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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 love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
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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’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.
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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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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 am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.
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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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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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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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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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I’ve read the Bible. I think the Bible’s a great book, but it’s a novel. It’s beautifully written and la-di-da, but people really took it the wrong way.
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