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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

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Winona Ryder
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 29
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If a film is well made, then great, whatever it's about.
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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.
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Life's short, so if you're going to spend months doing something, it's gotta be pretty special... But I'm very happy to enter my Baby Jane years, and hopefully segue into the Ruth Gordon years.
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I binge-watched this show Damages. Glenn Close and Rose Byrne are so good. Lily Tomlin is in it. You see all these great actors and the writing is terrific. There are a lot of shows like that. And there are all these conversations right now about roles for women and being paid equally and all of that, but I think what it really is, is opportunity.
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In the '80s, I loved the movies of the '70s. Also I remember loving Klute [1971]. I loved Jane Fonda. Actually, I auditioned for the last movie she made before she retired for a while, Stanley and Iris [1990], which Martha Plimpton got.
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I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.
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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.
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You've got to grow up sometime.
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I don't have anything left to offer in the teen-angst area. I've done it every way I know how.
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I was always like, I'm going to be the drunk judge who's like, 'Objection!' 'In chambers!' 
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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.
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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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What's great is my parents aren't stuck in the '60s. My dad is so into the culture of today.
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