Winona Ryder Quotes
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My parents are awesome, but they're pretty left-wing.
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I was so lucky that I got to meet certain people. It came through Roddy McDowall, who had become a photographer and would do these portraits of celebrities. Then he would get another well-known person to write a thing. He photographed me when I was 15 or 16, and he got Jason Robards to write the thing because he was sort of my mentor. And Roddy would invite me to these dinner parties that were insane. Like, Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen O'Hara and people that were just crazy. I still can't really believe that I met them.
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Bette Davis in All About Eve was huge for me. Her acting was staggering.
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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.
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I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
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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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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.
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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'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.
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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.
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Suddenly you're the mom, or you go from ... You're not an ingénue, you don't want to play an ingénue, but it's like that line in The First Wives Club 1996: "There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: babe, district attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.
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You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.
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I'm not a drug user myself. I'm too little to take drugs - my body can't take it.
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When I was young, I was really, really obsessed with Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes. Because my mom was a projectionist in college, she was somehow able to get a real projector. And she had some connections, so she would get real prints, and we'd put up a sheet. The first movies I saw were To Kill a Mockingbird 1962, Gigi 1958, A Woman Under the Influence 1974. Then when I was old enough to be able to rent movies, I went through a very big Cassavetes phase.
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In high school, I dressed up as every James Bond girl. I was a teenage Pussy Galore.
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I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.
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Certainly with The Crucible, what I love is that every role in that is so crucial.But there's something almost comic. I remember there's that line where she says, "I am 18 and a woman, however single," which killed me every time!
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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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You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
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I don't believe I am influencing anybody but myself.
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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.
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A lot of filmmakers and actors say, "It's so important to bring an authenticity to the role," blah, blah, blah. But then it's interesting because you're also trying to be somebody else, and viewers are going to associate you with that, so I don't think it really has an answer.
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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.
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What's great is my parents aren't stuck in the '60s. My dad is so into the culture of today.