Top 90 Winona Ryder Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I don’t believe I am influencing anybody but myself.”

— Winona Ryder

52. “I remember when I did Little Women, I didn’t watch the Katharine Hepburn one over and over, which I thought I would do. Heathers, I was completely obsessed with.”

— Winona Ryder

53. “I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn’t go out.”

— Winona Ryder

54. “I was so spoiled in a way. I worked very hard, but there was just a wealth of great roles.”

— Winona Ryder

55. “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

56. “I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.”

— Winona Ryder

57. “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

58. “In retrospect, I went to Jane Fonda for literally everything. During Mermaids, we were staying in the same building, so she was right upstairs from me. I was in my first relationship, so I got all sorts of advice. She became famous in her late teens.”

— Winona Ryder

59. “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

60. “I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.”

— Winona Ryder

61. “If you’re a musician, you can practice your guitar every day and write songs, but when you’re an actor, you can’t just like burst into a monologue. Your only exercise is when you’re in prep or you’re working.”

— Winona Ryder

62. “That’s an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don’t want to have other people read about.”

— Winona Ryder

63. “Focus should be on the art of film, not on the business of film.”

— Winona Ryder

64. “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

65. “I’m not into wrinkles.”

— Winona Ryder

66. “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

67. “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

68. “There are actors I know personally, or I’ve heard them say, “The less known about me, the better, because I just want people to think of me as the character.” I think Matt Damon said that recently. He has a point and I think I get that.”

— Winona Ryder

69. “I watched this documentary on Madonna. I remember I grew up hearing she wanted to rule the world. Actually, she worked really hard – really, really hard.”

— Winona Ryder

70. “As a character, it’s very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.”

— Winona Ryder

71. “I remember the whole thing with the word ambition. I was messed up for a while because I associated it with certain people who just want to be famous. I think, for a while, it was kind of a dirty word for women.”

— Winona Ryder

72. “My problems seemed so glamorous to other people, and everyone just thought I was so lucky. But then, I was lucky because my family was really there for me. I think I just felt like I really wanted to hold on to who I was as a person, and try to have as much of a normal life as I could.”

— Winona Ryder

73. “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

74. “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

75. “Bette Davis in All About Eve was huge for me. Her acting was staggering.”

— Winona Ryder

76. “A lot of filmmakers and actors say, “It’s so important to bring an authenticity to the role,” blah, blah, blah. But then it’s interesting because you’re also trying to be somebody else, and viewers are going to associate you with that, so I don’t think it really has an answer.”

— Winona Ryder

77. “Even though I never really had to pound the pavement as an actor, I always worked really hard. But, at the same time, I always felt like people thought that I didn’t have to struggle even though I was struggling.”

— Winona Ryder

78. “I don’t use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.”

— Winona Ryder

79. “People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they – at least the ones that I know personally – have been waiting for something that doesn’t completely insult them.”

— Winona Ryder

80. “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

81. “I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.”

— Winona Ryder

82. “It’s also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I’m not the only actress out there, and good parts just don’t fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I’ve made recently and so I’m pretty positive about the future.”

— Winona Ryder

83. “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

84. “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

85. “I don’t hang out with agents and producers and I’m not into the business side at all.”

— Winona Ryder

86. “Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it’s particularly tough when it’s being documented and you see the person’s picture everywhere. Most people don’t have that added problem when they break up with someone.”

— Winona Ryder

87. “If a film is well made, then great, whatever it’s about.”

— Winona Ryder

88. “I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.”

— Winona Ryder

89. “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

90. “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

91. “I think that as actresses – and I’ve definitely gone through this in a really bizarre way, because I worked so much and was really lucky with the roles that I got when I was younger – I remember hearing the older actors saying, “It gets tough,” and thinking, “Really? I can’t imagine.””

— Winona Ryder

92. “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