I have my email on my Blackberry, and that's about it.
— Winona Ryder
When I was young, I was the sweetheart of the press. They loved me but were kind of waiting for me to mess up. I had no skeletons in my closet, no major past to talk about.
I love watching old movies, and I read a lot of autobiographies.
I wish I could unknow this, but there is a perception of me that I'm super-sensitive and fragile. And I am super-sensitive, and I don't think that that's a bad thing. To do what I do, I have to remain open.
I wanted to be just a normal girl flirting with a normal guy. It's like, you meet people, and they know this stuff about you. It's why you want to meet somebody who's in the same business, only because they understand more. But you don't necessarily want to be with another actor.
It's all about knowing when to listen to that conversation and - without sounding really hokey - when to tune it out and follow your heart.
When your parents are madly in love for 45 years, your standards are really high.
I love getting older. I think it has to do with always being the kid on set.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's great concentrating so hard you feel your brain will explode.
I'm used to being told what to say, but not what to think... that's usually left up to me.
I went from weirdo teenager to pixie waif to them not knowing what the hell to do with me.
I'm so sick of people shaming women for being sensitive or vulnerable. It's so bizarre to me... I do have those qualities, and I just don't think there's anything wrong with them.
I remember when I was about 18, Sean Penn made a bet with me. He had just directed his first movie, and he's like, 'By the time you're 30, I will bet you $500 that you'll be sick of acting.' I'm still waiting to collect, because I'm not.
It used to be that you commit to something, and then basically you spend your year doing that. Now there's a constant conversation of how you have to keep working in order to remind people that you're around.
I'd rather never have been married than been divorced a few times. Not that there's anything wrong with divorce, but I don't think I could do it if that was a possibility.
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.
I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
My parents are awesome, but they're pretty left-wing.
I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.
If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.
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.
When I'm acting well, it's the most exhilarating experience. When I'm bad, it's miserable.
Apparently, Bette Davis and a lot of actresses had a hard time in their 30s, too.
I get sent a lot of scripts where you're just the mom.
I was watching TV, and there was this oldies-but-goodies film fest, and 'Lucas' came on. I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm an oldie!'
I was fired from a movie because I did 'Heathers!' I was cast in a movie, and the director saw an advance screening and was offended by it and fired me.
You have to work to be relevant. If you don't, then people will forget, and the studios won't want you because they won't remember the last thing you did that made money.
I was single for a while and dating and... I just didn't know how to do it! I've always been like that: when I was 15, there was a guy I liked, and we made out, and I thought that meant he was my boyfriend.
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.
The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.
I don't use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.
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.
I'm not interested in playing the girl that's just there to make the guy, you know, give him a talking to.
I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.
I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.
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.
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.
