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I've learned that it's OK to be flawed.

Winona Ryder

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Winona Ryder
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 29
Actor
Actress
Character Actor
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Winona
Minnesota
Winona Laura Horowitz
Winona Laura Ryder
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There's like this great thing that Bette Davis said when someone asked her, How do you get into Hollywood? Take Fountain!
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A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It's still in the back of my mind.
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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.'
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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?
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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.
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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.
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My parents are awesome, but they're pretty left-wing.
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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.
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I don't want to preach, and I don't want to tell people what to do.
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I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
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One thing you have to have when you act is energy.
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I remember realizing, when I did Little Women [1994], that that was the only time girls that age were being written about. It was always boys - from David Copperfield to Lord of the Flies to Holden Caulfield. There were never young women going through adolescence or teen years there were only little girls.
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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.
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I definitely believe in legalizing drugs. It does take the mystery away. It takes the money away, so suddenly there are no drug wars. If you're a junkie, you can get help easier.
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I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.
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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.
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A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.
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I was very obsessed with Ruth Gordon. I really didn't foresee me having any type of career as a leading lady at all because it was just blonds. I just wasn't the type - I was told that by casting directors. I auditioned for Running on Empty [1988] and The Mosquito Coast [1986], and Martha Plimpton was just killing me.
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Bette Davis, she was so brilliant and one of my heroes, but she worked a ton, and then she didn't get All About Eve [1950] until the last minute. Claudette Colbert was supposed to be Margo Channing, but then she broke her back and couldn't do it. That allowed Davis to play her age.
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I, myself, am strange and unusual.
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