Winona Ryder famous quotes

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.
-- Winona Ryder

#Confused #Perfect #Feelings

As a character, it's very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.
-- Winona Ryder

#Character #Play #Interesting

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.
-- Winona Ryder

#World #Sensitive #This World

I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
-- Winona Ryder

#Photography #Father #Firsts

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

#Regret #Thinking #Persons

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.
-- Winona Ryder

#Sad #Cynical #Stories

I was very lucky because Tim Burton really gave me a career. I don't think Hollywood would've known what to do with me. If I hadn't done 'Beetlejuice,' I think I would've just gone back to my school.
-- Winona Ryder

#School #Thinking #Careers

I thought it was a cool parallel. Being replaced by the young thing. I know that definitely happens in Hollywood. It's harder to find good roles, and suddenly there's new girls. I'm at that age I've been warned my whole life about.
-- Winona Ryder

#Girl #Age #Roles

My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends.
-- Winona Ryder

#Growing Up #Dad #Rocks

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
-- Winona Ryder

#Depression #Crazy #Exhausted

Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.
-- Winona Ryder

#Depression #Crazy #Dark

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.
-- Winona Ryder

#Real #Worry #People

You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.
-- Winona Ryder

#Good Day #Bad Day #Mental Health

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.
-- Winona Ryder

#Writing #People #Acting

You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
-- Winona Ryder

#Confused #Broken #Feelings

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.
-- Winona Ryder

#Moving #Long #People

I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
-- Winona Ryder

#Book #Records #Hitting

When I met Johnny, I was pure virgin. He changed that. He was my first everything. My first real kiss. My first real boyfriend. My first fiancé. The first guy I had sex with. So he'll always be in my heart. Forever. Kind of funny that word.
-- Winona Ryder

#Sex #Real #Heart

Most of my wardrobe is vintage, and I've worn dresses to the Oscars that I got for $10,
-- Winona Ryder

#Vintage #Oscars #Dresses

I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.
-- Winona Ryder

#Directors

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.
-- Winona Ryder

#Growing Up #Teenager #Growing

I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films.
-- Winona Ryder

#Care #Film #Made

I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all.
-- Winona Ryder

#Sides #Agents #Producers

Googling yourself is maybe one of the worst things you can do. I did it once, and someone had to talk me off a ledge.
-- Winona Ryder

#Ledges #Worst

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed.
-- Winona Ryder

#Flaws #Flawed

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.
-- Winona Ryder

#Thinking #People #Scary

Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame - illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.
-- Winona Ryder

#Mom #Hate #People

Well, yeah! Now they're considered golden oldies, which is awesome. I was watching Little Women recently, and I didn't want to get up for fear of missing something. And Heathers is like my own Rocky Horror Picture Show; I recite the lines when it's on. It may seem odd, but I think it's because they're really good movies.
-- Winona Ryder

#Thinking #Missing #Heathers

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.
-- Winona Ryder

#Growing Up #Kids #Long

I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
-- Winona Ryder

#Exhausted #Terrible

It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.
-- Winona Ryder

#People #Actors #Crowds

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.
-- Winona Ryder

#Girl #Dream #Play

It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think?
-- Winona Ryder

#Broken Heart #Hate #Past

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.
-- Winona Ryder

#Years #Engagement #Remember

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.
-- Winona Ryder

#Thinking #People #Waiting

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.
-- Winona Ryder

#Aggravation #People #Want

The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.
-- Winona Ryder

#Thinking #People #Worried

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

#Teenager #School #Long

But I've always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate - at least as far as possible - from the kind of illusory lifestyle that comes with being a celebrity.
-- Winona Ryder

#Needs #Kind #Lifestyle

You've got to grow up sometime.
-- Winona Ryder

#Inspirational #Growing Up #Teenager

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

#Book #Thinking #People

I feel my best when I'm happy.
-- Winona Ryder

#Funny #Dumb #Feels

I don't believe I am influencing anybody but myself.
-- Winona Ryder

#Believe #Influence

If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.
-- Winona Ryder

#Girl #Character #Ugly

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.
-- Winona Ryder

#Interesting #Process #Printed

Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it's particularly tough when it's being documented and you see the person's picture everywhere. Most people don't have that added problem when they break up with someone.
-- Winona Ryder

#Moving On #Break Up #Breakup

I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.
-- Winona Ryder

#Confidence #Thinking #Self

I don't use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
-- Winona Ryder

#Use #Internet

I'm not into wrinkles.
-- Winona Ryder

#Wrinkles

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.
-- Winona Ryder

#Movie #Stars #Children

It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.
-- Winona Ryder

#Fall #Interesting #Roles

Dear Diary: My teen angst bullshit now has a body count.
-- Winona Ryder

#Bullshit #Body #Diaries

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.
-- Winona Ryder

#Good Friend #Feel Good #Trying

My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system.
-- Winona Ryder

#Mother #Buddhist #Atheist

There's a scene [in the 1990 film Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael] in my bedroom where I start eating Almond Roca. I was so young. It was before I knew the tricks of moviemaking, and I didn't know you shoot a lot of different angles. I gobbled them and didn't realize I had to keep doing it. So I had to eat 64 Almond Roca that day. I got so sick. In the beginning you're like, 'Ooh, that looks good.' But hours later, no.
-- Winona Ryder

#Home #Sick #Different

I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.
-- Winona Ryder

#Book #Men #Guy

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.
-- Winona Ryder

#Fall #Secret #Important