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" The 1980s was the era of the blonde cheerleader. "
Winona Ryder
Era
Blonde
1980s
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" I want to be a good friend, a good sister, a good person and a good actress. "
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" 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. "
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Life
" My home is San Francisco - that is definitely what I consider my home. "
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" 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. "
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Best
" Even though I never really had to pound the pavement as an actor, I always worked really hard. But, at the same time, I always felt like people thought that I didn't have to struggle even though I was struggling. "
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Time
Thought
" 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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" 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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" I think I really scored with my parents. All of my friends pretty much came from broken homes, and my parents are still together, but not only that, they're still in love and still write together. "
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Parents
" The Duffers can be super articulate or very straight to the point. I was really impressed with how they were with each other. "
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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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Worst
Me
" The description of my character in the first few movies I did was always 'nerdy,' but I liked that; it was way more interesting. "
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Always
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" 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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You
" When your parents are madly in love for 45 years, your standards are really high. "
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Parents
Years
High
" 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
" 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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Time
Thought
" What you wear - and it always starts with your shoes - determines what kind of character you are. A woman who wears high heels carries herself very different to a girl who wears sneakers or sandals. It really helps determine how you carry yourself. "
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Shoes
Character
Girl
" It was hard to find that transition to adult roles. "
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Roles
Transition
Hard
" 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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Realize
Talk
Time
" I get sent a lot of scripts where you're just the mom. "
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Get
Mom
" I would never give advice, because I would feel very presumptuous. "
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Never
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Give
" 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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" I'm getting asked a lot, 'You don't have kids, so how do you know how to act like a mother?' I know nothing could compare, and I haven't had that experience, but when my niece was born, I felt like I would jump in front of a car and die for this little person I didn't even know yet. "
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Experience
Die
" 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. "
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Like
Anything
" 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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" The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think. "
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" 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. "
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" You've got to grow up sometime. "
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Up
You
" 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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" 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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