Winona Ryder Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• 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."

  Winona Ryder

  Mom, Play, Wife

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Bette Davis in All About Eve was huge for me. Her acting was staggering.

  Winona Ryder

  Acting, Staggering, Huge

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

  Winona Ryder

  Writing, People, Acting

  Interview with Stephen Mooallem, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 25, 2009.

• The fact that I got into acting at all was kind of fluke-ish. I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.

  Winona Ryder

  Thinking, Acting, Flukes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I was never strategic really, but back when I was starting out no one cared. In the acting community, box office didn't matter. I really think it was a mistake when they started paying people like $20 million to do a movie because now it's all people think about. Is she worth it? Is he worth it?

  Winona Ryder

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  "Winona Ryder" by Stephen Mooallem, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 25, 2009.

• 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.

  Winona Ryder

  Jobs, Struggle, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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