Looking back - I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opp... by Winona Ryder

Looking back - I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.

Winona Ryder

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I, myself, am strange and unusual. by Winona Ryder

I, myself, am strange and unusual.

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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.

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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.

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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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I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but i... by Winona Ryder

I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it's fiction.

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

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

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Most of my wardrobe is vintage, and I've worn dresses to the Osca... by Winona Ryder

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

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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.

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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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My parents really instilled this idea in me of being your own person, almost to the extent that I couldn't do wrong. I'd get a bad grade and they'd be like, "No! What you did was great!"

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

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I don't want to preach, and I don't want to tell people what to d... by Winona Ryder

I don't want to preach, and I don't want to tell people what to do.

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I approached work very seriously. I never went out. I couldn't fathom people who could go out to clubs... But I definitely went through a time where I was just terrified and exhausted and I didn't really understand. Hollywood... It just got to be too much for me.

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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 always find the positive in someone. by Winona Ryder

I'd always find the positive in someone.

I was so lucky that I got to meet certain people. It came through Roddy McDowall, who had become a photographer and would do these portraits of celebrities. Then he would get another well-known person to write a thing. He photographed me when I was 15 or 16, and he got Jason Robards to write the thing because he was sort of my mentor. And Roddy would invite me to these dinner parties that were insane. Like, Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen O'Hara and people that were just crazy. I still can't really believe that I met them.

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Sometimes I'll watch a movie, and it's got some big star in it playing a working-class person, and the character is in a grocery store, and you can kind of tell, from just watching the scene, that this actor doesn't do their own shopping. So you have to have some sense of reality.

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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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I was always like, "I'm going to be the drunk judge who's like, '... by Winona Ryder

I was always like, "I'm going to be the drunk judge who's like, 'Objection!' 'In chambers!' "

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I'm not into wrinkles. by Winona Ryder

I'm not into wrinkles.

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