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" 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

Long

Myself

School

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Learned

Flawed

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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Interesting

You

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

" People don't realise how much tension they hold in their forearms. "

" I went from weirdo teenager to pixie waif to them not knowing what the hell to do with me. "

Winona Ryder

Hell

Not Knowing

" I'm not someone like Norma Desmond who's harking back to her younger days. "

" I would never give advice, because I would feel very presumptuous. "

" 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. "

" It's equally as important to me to be a good friend and a good sister and a good daughter. I'm very close with my family and friends. "

" 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. "

Winona Ryder

You

Worst

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's great concentrating so hard you feel your brain will explode. "

" With 'Ed Wood,' I sobbed. With 'Frankenweenie,' I was crying. With 'Edward Scissorhands,' I always cry. There's always an incredible amount of purity, even if they look a certain way. "

" My problems seemed so glamorous to other people, and everyone just thought I was so lucky. But then, I was lucky because my family was really there for me - San Francisco was a real refuge. "

Winona Ryder

Family

People

" My parents are awesome, but they're pretty left-wing. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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