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" In real life, and for women everywhere, no matter what their job is, your 30s and your 40s and beyond should be celebrated. "
Winona Ryder
Women
Real Life
Matter
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" I get sent a lot of scripts where you're just the mom. "
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" Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level. "
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" I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist. "
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" 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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" One of my worst fears is being a self-indulgent person. "
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" When I'm acting well, it's the most exhilarating experience. When I'm bad, it's miserable. "
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" I love getting older. I think it has to do with always being the kid on set. "
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" There are certain directors who will start talking to you about something, and suddenly you'll be ready to roll, and you'll realize it was very specific. "
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" 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. "
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Wild
" I would not want to go back to playing the ingenue. "
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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. "
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Off
You
" I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record. "
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Going
Sound
" I feel my best when I'm happy. "
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I Feel
Happy
Best
" 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. "
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Because
Offended
" I don't have any interest in being a movie star. "
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Being
Movie
Star
" I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all. "
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Side
Producers
Out
" 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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Done
Back
Think
" It's great concentrating so hard you feel your brain will explode. "
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You
Brain
Feel
" It's like, 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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Shopping
You
Reality
" I have my email on my Blackberry, and that's about it. "
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Blackberry
Email
About
" 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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Talk
Time
" I feel a little stronger than people perceive me. "
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Feel
Little
" 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. "
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Family
People
" When your parents are madly in love for 45 years, your standards are really high. "
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Years
High
" 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. "
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Me
Mother
" 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. "
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Work
Performance
" 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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" You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that. "
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Sensitive
You
World