Top 90 Winona Ryder Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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.”

— Winona Ryder

2. “I, myself, am strange and unusual.”

— Winona Ryder

3. “You’ve got to grow up sometime.”

— Winona Ryder

4. “I write pretty much every day, but I don’t have any desire to publish anything.”

— Winona Ryder

5. “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

6. “I thought it was a cool parallel. Being replaced by the young thing. I know that definitely happens in Hollywood. It’s harder to find good roles, and suddenly there’s new girls. I’m at that age I’ve been warned my whole life about.”

— Winona Ryder

7. “I feel my best when I’m happy.”

— Winona Ryder

8. “Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame – illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.”

— Winona Ryder

9. “You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, you know, is always with you.”

— Winona Ryder

10. “A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.”

— Winona Ryder

11. “My parents are awesome, but they’re pretty left-wing.”

— Winona Ryder

12. “I think I’m learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven’t always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.”

— Winona Ryder

13. “I had this big complex because I didn’t go to college. There was a whole era where I got linked to everybody. People that I had never met. I was like, “How? I’m home alone reading chapter 12 of a book.””

— Winona Ryder

14. “The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.”

— Winona Ryder

15. “I remember being 18, and my first boyfriend said to me, “Unless you’re in the room, you don’t know if it’s true.” We were talking about gossip.”

— Winona Ryder

16. “There’s like this great thing that Bette Davis said when someone asked her, “How do you get into Hollywood?” “Take Fountain!””

— Winona Ryder

17. “In retrospect, I think maybe Audrey Hepburn was going to talk to me about doing something for UNICEF. I was so overwhelmed to just even be in her presence and I was very young, but it was really special and unforgettable.”

— Winona Ryder

18. “I got to work with Gena Rowlands when I did Night on Earth, and the movie was just you and someone else in a car, you’re just hanging out. There’s nobody else, just a walkie-talkie. It was a night shoot, and it was only a week or ten days. But it was incredible just being in her presence.”

— Winona Ryder

19. “Reverend Hale is so interesting because at first he’s like, “Oh, she’s got the mark.” Then by the end he’s like, “You’re all crazy.””

— Winona Ryder

20. “You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.”

— Winona Ryder

21. “Crazy isn’t being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me, amplified.”

— Winona Ryder

22. “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

23. “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

24. “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.”

— Winona Ryder

25. “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

26. “I’m not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.”

— Winona Ryder

27. “I was not the first choice for Veronica in Heathers. I auditioned and they were like, “Oh, thanks.” And I went to the Beverly Center to Macy’s and had them do a makeover on me. I went back because I kind of knew that they thought I wasn’t pretty enough. They were trying to get Jennifer Connelly.”

— Winona Ryder

28. “What’s awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That’s scary, and they just seem to think it’s okay to do it, like you’re public property.”

— Winona Ryder

29. “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

30. “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

31. “Somehow I was invited to visit with Audrey Hepburn. I had this afternoon with her, and she gave me a couple things. She was so gracious and everything you would think that she would be.”

— Winona Ryder

32. “I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.”

— Winona Ryder

33. “Sometimes I’ll watch a movie, and it’s got some big star in it playing a working-class person, and the character is in a grocery store, and you can kind of tell, from just watching the scene, that this actor doesn’t do their own shopping. So you have to have some sense of reality.”

— Winona Ryder

34. “It’s weird because I think of movies like Reality Bites or something, where, even though my life was nothing like that, I hadn’t done something contemporary for a while, and it’s easier. You do try to make something your own.”

— Winona Ryder

35. “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

36. “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

37. “Googling yourself is maybe one of the worst things you can do. I did it once, and someone had to talk me off a ledge.”

— Winona Ryder

38. “Even though ‘Heathers’ didn’t make a lot of money, I really was able to transition into a situation where people thought I could play an attractive role because of it.”

— Winona Ryder

39. “Money doesn’t matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn’t make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don’t have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.”

— Winona Ryder

40. “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

41. “I’d always find the positive in someone.”

— Winona Ryder

42. “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

43. “It’s just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.”

— Winona Ryder

44. “I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.”

— Winona Ryder

45. “It’s interesting because First Wives Club was the first movie that made a shitload of money that starred all women over a certain age. That was a milestone that made you think, “Oh, things are going to change.””

— Winona Ryder

46. “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

47. “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

48. “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

49. “My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system.”

— Winona Ryder

50. “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