Words matter. These are the best Winona Ryder Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Part of me feels like when you had a lot of success in your teens and 20s, it gets harder for you in your 30s because people are so attached to you as this ingenue. So even though you’re older, they still think of you as that girl – that waifish young girl. And so it was sort of like a struggle.
I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.
I wish I could unknow this, but there is a perception of me that I’m super-sensitive and fragile. And I am super-sensitive, and I don’t think that that’s a bad thing. To do what I do, I have to remain open.
There was a time when all that mattered was that you were in a good movie.
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.
I was unusual looking – I didn’t have the look of that time. If you look at ‘Lucas’ – and, basically, my first five or six movies – the characters are not described in the scripts as attractive people.
I’m just coming from a more personal – and, I guess, more nostalgic – point of view.
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.
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.
Apparently, Bette Davis and a lot of actresses had a hard time in their 30s, too.
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.
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.
The Duffers can be super articulate or very straight to the point. I was really impressed with how they were with each other.
I was fired from a movie because I did ‘Heathers!’ I was cast in a movie, and the director saw an advance screening and was offended by it and fired me.
The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.
Even though ‘Heathers’ didn’t make a lot of money, I really was able to transition into a situation where people thought I could play an attractive role because of it.
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.
What you wear – and it always starts with your shoes – determines what kind of character you are. A woman who wears high heels carries herself very different to a girl who wears sneakers or sandals. It really helps determine how you carry yourself.
I’m part of the crew obsessed with ‘The Wire.’ Like, I’m not over that yet.
I’ve always been super-private and protective of certain experiences and certain friends.
I’ve always been fascinated with twins.
One of my worst fears is being a self-indulgent person.
I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.
There’s a couple of times that I did it for the… paycheck. Even when I was younger – I remember I did this movie that wasn’t good, called ‘1969.’ I totally did it ’cause I could get out of school.
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.
I loved movies, but I can’t remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn’t imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.
I’m not into wrinkles.
I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.
When I’m acting well, it’s the most exhilarating experience. When I’m bad, it’s miserable.
I don’t believe I am influencing anybody but myself.
I would not want to go back to playing the ingenue.
When I think about the stuff I’ve turned down or the stuff I wasn’t interested in, I don’t have any regrets. Yes, there were some movies that went on to be really popular. But now, how do they really fit into things?
I’m getting asked a lot, ‘You don’t have kids, so how do you know how to act like a mother?’ I know nothing could compare, and I haven’t had that experience, but when my niece was born, I felt like I would jump in front of a car and die for this little person I didn’t even know yet.
In real life, and for women everywhere, no matter what their job is, your 30s and your 40s and beyond should be celebrated.
I did ‘Beetlejuice,’ and it was a big movie, but it didn’t help my high-school experience. In fact, it made it worse. I was a freak and a witch.
It’s great concentrating so hard you feel your brain will explode.
I love watching old movies, and I read a lot of autobiographies.
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.
I’m not interested in playing the girl that’s just there to make the guy, you know, give him a talking to.
I don’t hang out with agents and producers and I’m not into the business side at all.
I binge-watched this show ‘Damages.’ Glenn Close and Rose Byrne are so good. Lily Tomlin is in it. You see all these great actors, and the writing is terrific. There are a lot of shows like that.
I’ve been embracing aging. I always have, since I was a kid. When you’re the kid on the set for so long, you just, like, daydream about being older.
I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
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.
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.
I get sent a lot of scripts where you’re just the mom.
I approached work very seriously. I never went out. I couldn’t fathom people who could go out to clubs… I mean, if I had a 6 A.M. call, I had to be prepared. I had to be in bed at a certain hour.
When I was young, I was the sweetheart of the press. They loved me but were kind of waiting for me to mess up. I had no skeletons in my closet, no major past to talk about.
I definitely count my blessings. I feel like I’ve had such a great ride. Early on, to be able to work with some of the people I did, I feel really lucky.
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.
I was single for a while and dating and… I just didn’t know how to do it! I’ve always been like that: when I was 15, there was a guy I liked, and we made out, and I thought that meant he was my boyfriend.
I can see it in even great actors’ performances, when they’re phoning it in.
Some people go to L.A. just to see recognizable people. There are tour buses. But in New York, everyone seems a little less into that.
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.
Remember when you were a kid, and everyone used to say, ‘Would you rather be interested or interesting?’ And to me, it was always like, ‘Interested!’ How is that even a question? I feel very lucky that I’m just really, really interested in a lot of things.
Even though I never really had to pound the pavement as an actor, I always worked really hard. But, at the same time, I always felt like people thought that I didn’t have to struggle even though I was struggling.
I have my email on my Blackberry, and that’s about it.
It used to be that you commit to something, and then basically you spend your year doing that. Now there’s a constant conversation of how you have to keep working in order to remind people that you’re around.
I love getting older. I think it has to do with always being the kid on set.
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.
If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said ‘the ugly girl’.
I don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
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.
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.
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.
You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.
I remember a lot of conversations where I was constantly hearing, ‘You’ve gotta do this movie so you can do that movie. You’ve gotta make a big movie so you can make a small movie.’ But I can’t act like that.
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