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" 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

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" You've got to grow up sometime. "

Winona Ryder

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" When I'm acting well, it's the most exhilarating experience. When I'm bad, it's miserable. "

" 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

Process

Wild

" I would not want to go back to playing the ingenue. "

" It's all about knowing when to listen to that conversation and - without sounding really hokey - when to tune it out and follow your heart. "

" I'm part of the crew obsessed with 'The Wire.' Like, I'm not over that yet. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I remember when I was about 18, Sean Penn made a bet with me. He had just directed his first movie, and he's like, 'By the time you're 30, I will bet you $500 that you'll be sick of acting.' I'm still waiting to collect, because I'm not. "

" 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

Father

Mother

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

" 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. "

" You have to work to be relevant. If you don't, then people will forget, and the studios won't want you because they won't remember the last thing you did that made money. "

" 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. "

" When your parents are madly in love for 45 years, your standards are really high. "

" 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. "

" My favourite performances are by actresses like Bette Davis in 'All About Eve' or Gena Rowlands in pretty much anything - performances that have nothing to do with age. "

Winona Ryder

Nothing

Anything

" 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. "

" Life's short, so if you're going to spend months doing something, it's gotta be pretty special... But I'm very happy to enter my Baby Jane years, and hopefully segue into the Ruth Gordon years. "

" I did this little movie I really love called 'Experimenter,' but that took six years to get made and no money. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't have a director's mind. "

Winona Ryder

Mind

Director

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

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