Winona Ryder Quotes

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Winona Ryder

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 29, 1971

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.

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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 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.

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The 1980s was the era of the blonde cheerleader.

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

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There was a time when all that mattered was that you were in a good movie.

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

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I'm so sick of people shaming women for being sensitive or vulnerable. It's so bizarre to me... I do have those qualities, and I just don't think there's anything wrong with them.

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

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

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I'd rather never have been married than been divorced a few times. Not that there's anything wrong with divorce, but I don't think I could do it if that was a possibility.

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Scorsese would talk to me about this movie 'The Heiress' with Olivia de Havilland. We were talking about this scene in it, and suddenly we were rolling. It was very intentional, and I didn't realize - because we talk old movies all the time.

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I'm not interested in playing the girl that's just there to make the guy, you know, give him a talking to.

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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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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.

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I don't have any interest in being a movie star.

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The description of my character in the first few movies I did was always 'nerdy,' but I liked that; it was way more interesting.

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I want to be a good friend, a good sister, a good person and a good actress.

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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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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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