We have a collection of winona ryder quotes. Winona ryder is an american actress, known for her roles in films such as beetlejuice, edward scissorhands, and the age of innocence.
Her distinct style and captivating performances have made her an iconic figure in the entertainment industry. Here you will find a selection of her most memorable and inspirational quotes.
Winona Ryder Quotes :
🟫 “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.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 I went from weirdo teenager to pixie waif to them not knowing what the hell to do with me.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “I feel my best when I’m happy.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “But I’ve always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate – at least as far as possible – from the kind of illusory lifestyle that comes with being a celebrity.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “Honestly, if it wasn’t for ‘Beetlejuice,’ where would I be? That movie was a big thing for me.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “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.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “It’s great concentrating so hard you feel your brain will explode.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “I would never give advice, because I would feel very presumptuous.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “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.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “What’s awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That’s scary, and they just seem to think it’s okay to do it, like you’re public property.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “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.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “I’m not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “People don’t realise how much tension they hold in their forearms.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “I’m not into wrinkles.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “I don’t believe I am influencing anybody but myself.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “It’s also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I’m not the only actress out there, and good parts just don’t fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I’ve made recently and so I’m pretty positive about the future.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “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”
🟫 “I don’t hang out with agents and producers and I’m not into the business side at all.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “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”
🟫 “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.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it’s particularly tough when it’s being documented and you see the person’s picture everywhere. Most people don’t have that added problem when they break up with someone.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “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”
🟫 “My parents are awesome, but they’re pretty left-wing.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said ‘the ugly girl’.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “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.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “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.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “Remember, I’m the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I’ve never felt like I’m a big star at any level of my life.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “ You’ve got to grow up sometime.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “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.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “I’m so sick of people shaming women for being sensitive or vulnerable. It’s so bizarre to me… I do have those qualities, and I just don’t think there’s anything wrong with them.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “The 1980s was the era of the blonde cheerleader.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “As a teenager, I worked on Indian reservations, and it was such an incredible culture: the elders are so respected.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “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.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “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.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “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”
🟫 “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.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “You can’t pay enough money to… cure that feeling of being broken and confused.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “I would have to say ‘The Crucible’ stands out because it was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had, but, you know, Arthur Miller being present on the set – which was wonderful and incredible – but, to have him in your eye line is quite intimidating. It’s such a beautiful language he created, so that was challenging but exciting.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “When I was young, I was the sweetheart of the press. They loved me but were kind of waiting for me to mess up. I had no skeletons in my closet, no major past to talk about.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.-Winona Ryder
That’s an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don’t want to have other people read about.Winona Ryder”
🟫 “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.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “It’s really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don’t you think?-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “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.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “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.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “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.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “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.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “You try to get out there and live. I’ve always had good friends who’ve been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I’ve never felt attached to the film industry.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “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.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “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.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “I love getting older. I think it has to do with always being the kid on set.-Winona Ryder”
🟫 “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.-Winona Ryder”
Awesome Quotes By Winona Ryder That Will Make You Fall In Love With Her :
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “I get sent a lot of scripts where you’re just the mom.”
🟫 “Most actors don’t know what they’re going to do next, so you get into this thing where you have to force yourself to have another life outside of acting. And then, as soon as you start something in this sort of normal life that you’re trying to live, you get a job. So you have this constant struggle because you want to be able to commit to things and to finish things in your life, but then you also want to be able to act.”
🟫 “I binge-watched this show Damages. Glenn Close and Rose Byrne are so good. Lily Tomlin is in it. You see all these great actors and the writing is terrific. There are a lot of shows like that. And there are all these conversations right now about roles for women and being paid equally and all of that, but I think what it really is, is opportunity.”
🟫 “When I think about the stuff I’ve turned down or the stuff I wasn’t interested in, I don’t have any regrets. Yes, there were some movies that went on to be really popular. But now, how do they really fit into things?”
🟫 “The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “It’s also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I’m not the only actress out there, and good parts just don’t fall into your lap that easily.”
🟫 “But I like most of the films I’ve made recently and so I’m pretty positive about the future.”
🟫 “All we want is to be treated like human beings, and not to be patronized, or experimented on like guinea pigs.”
🟫 “I was never strategic really, but back when I was starting out no one cared. In the acting community, box office didn’t matter. I really think it was a mistake when they started paying people like $20 million to do a movie because now”
🟫 “it’s all people think about. Is she worth it? Is he worth it?”
🟫 “There was a time when all that mattered was that you were in a good movie.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “I binge-watched this show ‘Damages.’ Glenn Close and Rose Byrne are so good. Lily Tomlin is in it. You see all these great actors, and the writing is terrific. There are a lot of shows like that.”
🟫 “It’s interesting because, even with ‘Beetlejuice,’ I was an awkward kid. I started at puberty and went through it on film. Lydia was one of my favorite roles because I related to her a lot.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “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.
When I was young, I was the sweetheart of the press. They loved me but were kind of waiting for me to mess up. I had no skeletons in my closet, no major past to talk about.”
🟫 “When your parents are madly in love for 45 years, your standards are really high.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “You look at people like Gena Rowlands, but she had [John] Cassavetes to write these amazing roles for her.”
🟫 “As an actress, you want to try new things. You don’t want to repeat yourself. That becomes more important to you, as you get older.”
🟫 “I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.”
🟫 “I was so spoiled in a way. I worked very hard, but there was just a wealth of great roles.”
🟫 “In retrospect, I went to Jane Fonda for literally everything. During Mermaids,”
🟫 “we were staying in the same building, so she was right upstairs from me. I was in my first relationship, so I got all sorts of advice. She became famous in her late teens.”
🟫 “In real life, and for women everywhere, no matter what their job is, your 30s and your 40s and beyond should be celebrated.”
🟫 “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 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.”
🟫 “The 1980s was the era of the blonde cheerleader.”
🟫 “I went from weirdo teenager to pixie waif to them not knowing what the hell to do with me.”
🟫 “You do a movie if it’s good and if you want to do it. It doesn’t matter if it’s small or big or expensive or cheap. If you want to say the words, you’re gonna say them. You can’t strategize.”
🟫 “My parents are awesome, but they’re pretty left-wing.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “I got to work with Gena Rowlands when I did Night on Earth, and the movie was just you and someone else in a car, you’re just hanging out. There’s nobody else, just a walkie-talkie. It was a night shoot, and it was only a week or ten days. But it was incredible just being in her presence.”
🟫 “I think it’s important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “Even though ‘Heathers’ didn’t make a lot of money, I really was able to transition into a situation where people thought I could play an attractive role because of it.”
🟫 “I feel my best when I’m happy.”
🟫 “I watched this documentary on Madonna. I remember I grew up hearing she wanted to rule the world. Actually, she worked really hard – really, really hard.”
🟫 “My parents were great in the sense that they treated me like a human being when I was growing up. They showed me how beautiful things can be and how ugly they can be.”
🟫 “One of my worst fears is being a self-indulgent person.”
🟫 “I remember when I did Little Women, I didn’t watch the Katharine Hepburn one over and over, which I thought I would do. Heathers, I was completely obsessed with.”
🟫 “I’m part of the crew obsessed with ‘The Wire.’ Like, I’m not over that yet.”
🟫 “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 was very obsessed with Ruth Gordon. I really didn’t foresee me having any type of career as a leading lady at all because it was just blonds. I just wasn’t the type – I was told that by casting directors. I auditioned for Running on”
🟫 “Empty [1988] and The Mosquito Coast [1986], and Martha Plimpton was just killing me.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “I’m not interested in playing the girl that’s just there to make the guy, you know, give him a talking to.”
🟫 “I’m very attached to movie theaters and I love going to them. Nothing will ever replace that. It’s very romantic and beautiful. I used to want to live inside of one, with a bathtub, a bike and a bed, and just watch movies.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “I did this little movie I really love called ‘Experimenter,’ but that took six years to get made and no money.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “What’s awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That’s scary, and they just seem to think it’s okay to do it, like you’re public property.”
🟫 “I feel a little stronger than people perceive me.”
🟫 “It’s weird because I think of movies like Reality Bites or something, where, even though my life was nothing like that, I hadn’t done something contemporary for a while, and it’s easier. You do try to make something your own.”
🟫 “I love getting older. I think it has to do with always being the kid on set.”
🟫 “The description of my character in the first few movies I did was always ‘nerdy,’ but I liked that; it was way more interesting.”
🟫 “I don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.”
🟫 “I would never give advice, because I would feel very presumptuous.”
🟫 “I’m used to being told what to say, but not what to think… that’s usually left up to me.”
🟫 “I remember the whole thing with the word ambition. I was messed up for a while because I associated it with certain people who just want to be famous. I think, for a while, it was kind of a dirty word for women.”
🟫 “Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.”
🟫 “I thought it was a cool parallel. Being replaced by the young thing. I know that definitely happens in Hollywood. It’s harder to find good roles, and suddenly there’s new girls. I’m at that age I’ve been warned my whole life about.”
🟫 “You know you’re getting older when they’re making TV shows, sequels or plays for things that you did. It’s very flattering and very humbling, indeed.”
🟫 “I don’t hang out with agents and producers and I’m not into the business side at all.”
🟫 “I remember realizing, when I did Little Women [1994], that that was the only time girls that age were being written about. It was always boys – from David Copperfield to Lord of the Flies to Holden Caulfield. There were never young women going through adolescence or teen years; there were only little girls.”
🟫 “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 first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn’t go out.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “Most of my wardrobe is vintage, and I’ve worn dresses to the Oscars that I got for $10.”
🟫 “One of my friends committed suicide when I was in high school, and it’s the most tragic thing anybody can go through.”
🟫 “I have my email on my Blackberry, and that’s about it.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “There’s a scene [in the 1990 film Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael] in my bedroom where I start eating Almond Roca. I was so young. It was before I knew the tricks of moviemaking, and I didn’t know you shoot a lot of different angles. I gobbled them and didn’t realize I had to keep doing it. So I had to eat 64 Almond Roca that day. I got so sick. In the beginning you’re like, ‘Ooh, that looks good.’ But hours later, no.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “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 just coming from a more personal – and, I guess, more nostalgic – point of view.”
🟫 “I love Texas. Even if I am a little bit famous or a little bit popular… You go to places where you’re not and just live like everybody else lives. I’m not crazy about this country in terms of the shape it’s in, but I do think there are lots of great pieces to go to. I think I should take advantage of it while this country still exists.”
🟫 “It’s really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don’t you think?”
🟫 “I was raised to believe that religion is a beautiful thing, but it’s fiction.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “Bette Davis in All About Eve was huge for me. Her acting was staggering.”
🟫 “Looking back – I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.”
🟫 “On the set for ‘Beetlejuice,’ it was before people would go watch on monitors, and directors would be next to the camera.”
🟫 “I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “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 believe in legalizing drugs. It does take the mystery away. It takes the money away, so suddenly there are no drug wars. If you’re a junkie, you can get help easier.”
🟫 “It would be great if teenagers could make movies. It’s sad how some writers think they can write about stuff they don’t understand.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “Some people go to L.A. just to see recognizable people. There are tour buses. But in New York, everyone seems a little less into that.”
🟫 “That first movie I did, Lucas [1986], was probably the closest to me. And Beetlejuice a little bit, in the sense that I did look like that. All they did was like put a little white powder here.”
🟫 “I don’t believe I am influencing anybody but myself.”
🟫 “For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.”
🟫 “Remember, I’m the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I’ve never felt like I’m a big star at any level of my life.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said ‘the ugly girl’.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “I was watching TV, and there was this oldies-but-goodies film fest, and ‘Lucas’ came on. I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m an oldie!’”
🟫 “I don’t have any interest in being a movie star.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.”
🟫 “That’s an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don’t want to have other people read about.”
🟫 “Society makes suicide so romantic. I mean, you watch these TV movies about teen suicide and you want to jump in front of a bus. Because your biggest fantasy is your own funeral. No one will admit to it, but it’s true.”
🟫 “When I’m acting well, it’s the most exhilarating experience. When I’m bad, it’s miserable.”
🟫 “A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “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.’”
🟫 “But I’ve always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate – at least as far as possible – from the kind of illusory lifestyle that comes with being a celebrity.”
🟫 “In the ’80s, I loved the movies of the ’70s. Also I remember loving Klute [1971].”
🟫 “I loved Jane Fonda. Actually, I auditioned for the last movie she made before she retired for a while, Stanley and Iris [1990], which Martha Plimpton got.”
🟫 “As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don’t really care where it’s seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven’t done before.”
🟫 “The fact that I got into acting at all was kind of fluke-ish. 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.”
🟫 “You can’t pay enough money to… cure that feeling of being broken and confused.”
🟫 “I’m 44 years old. So, it’s really great to watch younger generations getting their opportunities, and being there to support them in that.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “I’d always find the positive in someone.”
🟫 “My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.”
🟫 “I’m not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.”
🟫 “I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.”
🟫 “You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.”
🟫 “My home is San Francisco – that is definitely what I consider my home.”
🟫 “I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It’s still in the back of my mind.”
🟫 “It’s great concentrating so hard you feel your brain will explode.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “As a teenager, I worked on Indian reservations, and it was such an incredible culture: the elders are so respected.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “What’s great is my parents aren’t stuck in the ’60s. My dad is so into the culture of today.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “I’m not a big one on – I don’t know what to call it – getting all glamorous. I don’t really worry about my looks, and I don’t worry about getting old. Exterior beauty doesn’t mean a lot to me.”
🟫 “I try to just pay attention to what I’m feeling. If something is scary to me, then that’s sometimes a good sign – although, sometimes it’s not.”
🟫 “I don’t want to preach, and I don’t want to tell people what to do.”
🟫 “I’m too young to play lawyers. But I’ve been really lucky because I never got labeled. I never did the John Hughes thing. I did adult movies. I’m not bragging or anything, but I think that I’ve chosen really good roles. I’ve played different people and showed that I have a little bit of range.”
🟫 “I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it’s particularly tough when it’s being documented and you see the person’s picture everywhere. Most people don’t have that added problem when they break up with someone.
🟫 “I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.”
🟫 “I can see it in even great actors’ performances, when they’re phoning it in.
Usually, the roles that you get offered that are the mom roles are very much the mom role.”
🟫 “I’m so sick of people shaming women for being sensitive or vulnerable. It’s so bizarre to me… I do have those qualities, and I just don’t think there’s anything wrong with them.”
🟫 “I often get offered things that are so similar to things that I have done, and life is too short. When you make a film or a show, as you get older, that’s a lot of time to be doing something that you’re not absolutely invested in or in love with.”
🟫 “Apparently, Bette Davis and a lot of actresses had a hard time in their 30s, too.”
🟫 “I would not want to go back to playing the ingenue.”
🟫 “Honestly, if it wasn’t for ‘Beetlejuice,’ where would I be? That movie was a big thing for me.”
🟫 “The Duffers can be super articulate or very straight to the point. I was really impressed with how they were with each other.”
🟫 “You’ve got to grow up sometime.”
🟫 “Focus should be on the art of film, not on the business of film.”
🟫 “I’ve read the Bible. I think the Bible’s a great book, but it’s a novel. It’s beautifully written and la-di-da, but people really took it the wrong way.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “People don’t realise how much tension they hold in their forearms.”
🟫 “I, myself, am strange and unusual.”
🟫 “I’ve always been super-private and protective of certain experiences and certain friends.”
🟫 “I think it’s really important to have a life and have interests outside of this [movie] business, and not rely on this business to validate you as a human being. If you do that, you’re really in a dangerous spot.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “I love watching old movies, and I read a lot of autobiographies.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “I think it’s really important to have a life outside of this [movie] business and just be the best person you can be.”
🟫 “If you’re a musician, you can practice your guitar every day and write songs, but when you’re an actor, you can’t just like burst into a monologue. Your only exercise is when you’re in prep or you’re working.”
🟫 “I’m not into wrinkles.”
🟫 “The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.”
🟫 “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’ve always been fascinated with twins.”
🟫 “I’m not someone like Norma Desmond who’s harking back to her younger days.”
🟫 “One thing you have to have when you act is energy.”
🟫 “It was hard to find that transition to adult roles.”
🟫 “I want to be a good friend, a good sister, a good person and a good actress.”
🟫 “In retrospect, I think maybe Audrey Hepburn was going to talk to me about doing something for UNICEF. I was so overwhelmed to just even be in her presence and I was very young, but it was really special and unforgettable.
🟫 “I’m not a drug user myself. I’m too little to take drugs – my body can’t take it.”
🟫 “Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame – illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “I just did what I found interesting. I was so lucky that I was able to do that, especially in the ’90s. I was really able to have a life to go back to.”
🟫 “My favorite 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.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “I don’t have a director’s mind.”
🟫 “As a character, it’s very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.”
🟫 “In America, I don’t know how much longer the environment is going to exist. I sort of strongly believe that we’re in danger.”
🟫 “If a film is well made, then great, whatever it’s about.”
🟫 “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.”
🟫 “You try to get out there and live. I’ve always had good friends who’ve been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I’ve never felt attached to the film industry.”
🟫 “I don’t have anything left to offer in the teen-angst area. I’ve done it every way I know how.”
🟫 “I really lucked out in terms of how my parents encouraged me to develop my own personality so I didn’t just feel incredibly insecure and like I didn’t fit in.”
Inspiring Winona Ryder Quotes About Life :
🟫 “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.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “Most people don’t have that added problem when they break up with someone.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “What’s awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That’s scary, and they just seem to think it’s okay to do it like you’re public property.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “I don’t hang out with agents and producers and I’m not into the business side at all.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “I’m not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “Most of my wardrobe is vintage, and I’ve worn dresses to the Oscars that I got for $10.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “You try to get out there and live. I’ve always had good friends who’ve been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I’ve never felt attached to the film industry.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “It’s also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I’m not the only actress out there, and good parts just don’t fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I’ve made recently and so I’m pretty positive about the future.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “I thought it was a cool parallel. Being replaced by the young thing. I know that definitely happens in Hollywood. It’s harder to find good roles, and suddenly there’s new girls. I’m at that age I’ve been warned my whole life about.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “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.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “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.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “I feel my best when I’m happy.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “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.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “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.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “When I met Johnny, I was pure virgin. He changed that. He was my first everything. My first real kiss. My first real boyfriend. My first fiancé. The first guy I had sex with. So he’ll always be in my heart. Forever. Kind of funny that word.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “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.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “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
🟫 “I don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “I don’t believe I am influencing anybody but myself.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “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.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “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
🟫 “You’ve got to grow up sometime.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “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.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “It’s really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don’t you think?” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “That’s an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don’t want to have other people read about.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “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
🟫 “I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said ‘the ugly girl’.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “As a character, it’s very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame – illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “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.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “Remember, I’m the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I’ve never felt like I’m a big star at any level of my life.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “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.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “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.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “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
🟫 “But I’ve always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate – at least as far as possible – from the kind of illusory lifestyle that comes with being a celebrity.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.” – Winona Ryder
🟫 “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
🟫 “I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.” – Winona Ryder
Winona ryder has a unique way of looking at the world and a willingness to share her perspective. Her words have helped many people to find strength and make sense of life’s struggles. Her words will continue to inspire and illuminate the lives of many.
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