I feel a little stronger than people perceive me. — Winona Ryder

It’s great concentrating so hard you feel your brain will explode. — Winona Ryder

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. — Winona Ryder

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that. — Winona Ryder

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

I would never give advice, because I would feel very presumptuous. — 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

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.’ — Winona Ryder

I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films. — 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

I don’t believe I am influencing anybody but myself. — Winona Ryder

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

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 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

I just did what I found interesting. I was so lucky that I was able to do that, especially in the ’90s. I was really able to have a life to go back to. — Winona Ryder

In real life, and for women everywhere, no matter what their job is, your 30s and your 40s and beyond should be celebrated. — Winona Ryder

But I’ve always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate–at least as far as possible–from the kind of illusory lifestyle that comes with being a celebrity. — Winona Ryder

I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there. — Winona Ryder

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. — Winona Ryder

Remember, I’m the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I’ve never felt like I’m a big star at any level of my life. — Winona Ryder

As a character, it’s very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it. — Winona Ryder

One thing you have to have when you act is energy. — Winona Ryder

My parents are awesome, but they’re pretty left–wing. — Winona Ryder

What’s great is my parents aren’t stuck in the ’60s. My dad is so into the culture of today. — Winona Ryder

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! — Winona Ryder

My parents were great in the sense that they treated me like a human being when I was growing up. They showed me how beautiful things can be and how ugly they can be. — Winona Ryder

I love getting older. I think it has to do with always being the kid on set. — Winona Ryder

I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors. — Winona Ryder

I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist. — Winona Ryder

When your parents are madly in love for 45 years, your standards are really high. — Winona Ryder

I would love to someday do a play. I did one when I was very young in San Francisco, where I grew up. A girl can dream. — 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

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

It’s really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart–broken, or like they hate you. Don’t you think? — Winona Ryder

I did this little movie I really love called ‘Experimenter,’ but that took six years to get made and no money. — Winona Ryder

I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record. — Winona Ryder

Apparently, Bette Davis and a lot of actresses had a hard time in their 30s, too. — Winona Ryder

There was a time when all that mattered was that you were in a good movie. — Winona Ryder

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time. — Winona Ryder

I was unusual looking–I didn’t have the look of that time. If you look at ‘Lucas’–and, basically, my first five or six movies–the characters are not described in the scripts as attractive people. — 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 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. — Winona Ryder

I think it’s important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run. — 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

You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you. — Winona Ryder

I’m not someone like Norma Desmond who’s harking back to her younger days. — Winona Ryder

One of my friends committed suicide when I was in high school, and it’s the most tragic thing anybody can go through. — 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

In high school, I dressed up as every James Bond girl. I was a teenage Pussy Galore. — Winona Ryder

I did ‘Beetlejuice,’ and it was a big movie, but it didn’t help my high–school experience. In fact, it made it worse. I was a freak and a witch. — Winona Ryder

I was very lucky because Tim Burton really gave me a career. I don’t think Hollywood would’ve known what to do with me. If I hadn’t done ‘Beetlejuice,’ I think I would’ve just gone back to my school. — Winona Ryder