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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.

Winona Ryder

You can’t pay enough money to cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
WINONA RYDER

Break Confusion Cure Enough Feeling Money Pay Yourself
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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Actor Move Myself Occupation Shallow Shame Time
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.
WINONA RYDER

Alone Moments Myself People Reading Value Weird
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 RYDER

Expensive Goodness Movie Price Word Yourself
I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
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Growth Myself Start
Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame – illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.
WINONA RYDER

Blame Forever Illegal Mom Need Prison Victim
Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.
WINONA RYDER

Break Crazy Darkness Myself Secret Yourself
I want to be a good person, and a person that people enjoy working with, ’cause I certainly enjoy working with other people.
WINONA RYDER

Goodness Myself People Person Work
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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Friendship Love Myself Parents Thinking Togetherness Writing
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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Mindset Movie Myself Old Sad
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.
WINONA RYDER

Ambition Dirty Famous Kind Mess Myself People Remember Woman Word
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.
WINONA RYDER

Couple Feeling Movie Myself Performance See Time Type Work
Looking back – I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.
WINONA RYDER

Career Greatness Myself Opportunity Success
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.
WINONA RYDER

Doubt Myself Regard Scare School Time
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.
WINONA RYDER

Attention Feeling Goodness Myself Pay Scare Try
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.
WINONA RYDER

Bad Experience Goodness Person Regret Thinking Weird

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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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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