Winona Ryder Quotes
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A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It's still in the back of my mind.
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I grew up in San Francisco. My parents were not hippies; they were writers. They were very active politically, but on the intellectual side, not on the "taking drugs in a field and listening to the Grateful Dead" side.
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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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I don't want to preach, and I don't want to tell people what to do.
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I don't have anything left to offer in the teen-angst area. I've done it every way I know how.
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As a character, it's very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.
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My parents really instilled this idea in me of being your own person, almost to the extent that I couldn't do wrong. I'd get a bad grade and they'd be like, "No! What you did was great!"
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I don't use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
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I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
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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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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.
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How I was raised was, there were no rules - nothing like that. If I wanted to take a drug because I was in school and everybody was doing it, I could go to my parents and say, "I really want to try this." And they'd say, "If you do this, O.K., but this is what can happen to you..." They'd say, "Don't get it in the streets, because it could be really bad and make you freak out. Don't take it in a crowded place, because you'll panic."
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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.
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Actors do these really gross, gun-'em-down movies, and I always wonder why. They're not good movies. And it's like, "Why are you doing them? Aren't you rich enough?"
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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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One thing you have to have when you act is energy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all.
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I'd always find the positive in someone.
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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.