You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that. – 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
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. – 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
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. – Winona Ryder
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. – Winona Ryder
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. – 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
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’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 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
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. – 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
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. – Winona Ryder
On the set for ‘Beetlejuice,’ it was before people would go watch on monitors, and directors would be next to the camera. – Winona Ryder
I’m not interested in playing the girl that’s just there to make the guy, you know, give him a talking to. – Winona Ryder
I’ve always been super-private and protective of certain experiences and certain friends. – Winona Ryder
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. – 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 went from weirdo teenager to pixie waif to them not knowing what the hell to do with me. – Winona Ryder
