Winona Ryder Quotes
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.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
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You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.'
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In married life three is company and two none.
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It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.
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I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It's the little things in life that make me happy.
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First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show aired, they caught the killer!
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Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
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I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.
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It's hard separating work from personal life.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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Life is never free of contradictions.
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Until I was twelve years old, I led this wandering life, fishing, swimming, and making moccasins.
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I'm aiming to do what I need to do for acting and nothing more. I'm bowing down to acting.
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You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
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I discovered the slip dress, which I think is one of the more French things because when you take off your clothes, even when to go into a shop to buy something, or you're going to Riccardo Tisci to try on a suit, it's like having protection.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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I was always writing. I've always been attracted to words and stories, communication.
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The most frustrating thing for me as a singer is that people have pinpointed me as an actress who suddenly woke up one day and decided that I wanted to sing.
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The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
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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.
