Latest Winona Ryder Quotes from Interviews

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• Looking back - I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.

  Winona Ryder

  Opportunity, Great Opportunity, Looking Back

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I was mid-sentence when the casting director said, "Listen, kid. You should not be an actress. You are not pretty enough. You should go back to wherever you came from and you should go to school. You don't have it." She was very blunt - I honestly think that she thought she was doing me a favor.

  Winona Ryder

  School, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Winona Ryder

  Scary, Feelings, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I will say, though, that San Francisco is a very friendly city. It's the kind of place where people smile at you and you can strike up conversations on the street, so there's always an adjustment when I come back to New York. If I smile at someone on the street in New York, then they think there's something up - like, "Why is she smiling?"

  Winona Ryder

  Thinking, People, Friendly

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Winona Ryder

  Tv Shows, Play, Getting Older

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Winona Ryder

  Opportunity, Years, Support

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Winona Ryder

  Roles, Stories, Done

  Source: collider.com

• No one is banging my door down to be a superhero. I don't know how good I would be. I have low bone density, so I don't know if anyone really wants to put me in a cape and chuck me out a window. But a lot of my friends, who are great actors and who come from film, are doing TV because that's where the opportunities are. For us, it does feel like it's similar to making the movies that we used to make.

  Winona Ryder

  Opportunity, Doors, Superhero

  Source: collider.com

• A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It's still in the back of my mind.

  Winona Ryder

  Mind, Really Sad, Old Movie

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Winona Ryder

  Beautiful, Bed, Watches

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Winona Ryder

  Life Is Too Short, Done, Film

  Source: collider.com

• I think it's really important to have a life outside of this [movie] business and just be the best person you can be.

  Winona Ryder

  Thinking, Important, Being The Best

  Source: collider.com

• You're lucky if you're in three great movies, or even one great movie. I've been so lucky. But if you rely on the business to dictate whether you're happy, it gets really complicated. You just can't do that. There have been times in my life that I've done that, and I've found it depressing.

  Winona Ryder

  Depressing, Lucky, Three

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Winona Ryder

  Thinking, Important, Spots

  Source: collider.com

• I love my job. But all the stuff that comes with it, the thought of being propelled into the limelight again is not something I sit around and fantasize about, certainly. I'd much rather just do my work, and then go home and read my books and watch movies.

  Winona Ryder

  Jobs, Book, Home

  Source: collider.com

• I'm a really private person. I just love my work. I feel like celebrity has changed so much, in this culture. Ever since they started with those reality shows and people that aren't actors but they're really famous, it's gotten very different from when I started out. So, the idea of ever becoming more than what I had is not really what I want.

  Winona Ryder

  Reality, Ideas, People

  Source: collider.com

• I want to be a good person, and a person that people enjoy working with, 'cause I certainly enjoy working with other people.

  Winona Ryder

  People, Want, Working With Others

  Source: collider.com

• 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?"

  Winona Ryder

  Gun, Good Movie, Ems

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Winona Ryder

  Important, Trying, Want

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Winona Ryder

  Want, Matter, Bigs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Winona Ryder

  Thinking, Play, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If something brilliant comes along but I really feel like it's too old for me - that I'm not gonna have the experience it takes - I'm not gonna do it. Even if it's "a big mistake for my career".

  Winona Ryder

  Mistake, Careers, Brilliant

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't want to preach, and I don't want to tell people what to do.

  Winona Ryder

  People, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Winona Ryder

  Believe, America, Environment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Winona Ryder

  Country, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com