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" 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. "
Winona Ryder
Friend
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" I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors. "
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" I wish I could unknow this, but there is a perception of me that I'm super-sensitive and fragile. And I am super-sensitive, and I don't think that that's a bad thing. To do what I do, I have to remain open. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I've loved making movies. I feel like I've been so lucky because I've gotten to be in movies that are some of my favorites, regardless of my being in them - like 'Heathers.' "
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" I'm not into wrinkles. "
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" I would not want to go back to playing the ingenue. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I wanted to be just a normal girl flirting with a normal guy. It's like, you meet people, and they know this stuff about you. It's why you want to meet somebody who's in the same business, only because they understand more. But you don't necessarily want to be with another actor. "
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" I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer. "
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" You've got to grow up sometime. "
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" Part of me feels like when you had a lot of success in your teens and 20s, it gets harder for you in your 30s because people are so attached to you as this ingenue. So even though you're older, they still think of you as that girl - that waifish young girl. And so it was sort of like a struggle. "
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" I would love to someday do a play. I did one when I was very young in San Francisco, where I grew up. A girl can dream. "
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" I've always been fascinated with twins. "
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" Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone. "
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" There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression. "
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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. "
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" I don't use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it. "
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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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" 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. "
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" You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused. "
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" I've been embracing aging. I always have, since I was a kid. When you're the kid on the set for so long, you just, like, daydream about being older. "
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" 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. "
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" I remember a lot of conversations where I was constantly hearing, 'You've gotta do this movie so you can do that movie. You've gotta make a big movie so you can make a small movie.' But I can't act like that. "
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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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