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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

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Winona Ryder
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: October 29
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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.
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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.
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I don't use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
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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.
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I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all.
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I'd always find the positive in someone.
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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 love Texas. Even if I am a little bit famous or a little bit popular... You go to places where you're not and just live like everybody else lives. I'm not crazy about this country in terms of the shape it's in, but I do think there are lots of great pieces to go to. I think I should take advantage of it while this country still exists.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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One of my friends committed suicide when I was in high school, and it's the most tragic thing anybody can go through.
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I want to be a good person, and a person that people enjoy working with, 'cause I certainly enjoy working with other people.
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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.
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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 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.
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