Winona Ryder
I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.Collection: Teen
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.Collection: Famous
Scorsese would talk to me about this movie 'The Heiress' with Olivia de Havilland. We were talking about this scene in it, and suddenly we were rolling. It was very intentional, and I didn't realize - because we talk old movies all the time.Collection: Movies
It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.Collection: Sad
You've got to grow up sometime.Collection: Teen
I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.Collection: Truth
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.Collection: Dating
I was unusual looking - I didn't have the look of that time. If you look at 'Lucas' - and, basically, my first five or six movies - the characters are not described in the scripts as attractive people.Collection: Movies
I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.Collection: Learning
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'm not interested in playing the girl that's just there to make the guy, you know, give him a talking to.
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.'
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.
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 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'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.
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 love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
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.
I love getting older. I think it has to do with always being the kid on set.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 get sent a lot of scripts where you're just the mom.
I love watching old movies, and I read a lot of autobiographies.
Apparently, Bette Davis and a lot of actresses had a hard time in their 30s, too.
I'm used to being told what to say, but not what to think... that's usually left up to me.
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.
When I'm acting well, it's the most exhilarating experience. When I'm bad, it's miserable.
I have my email on my Blackberry, and that's about it.
There's a couple of times that I did it for the... paycheck. Even when I was younger - I remember I did this movie that wasn't good, called '1969.' I totally did it 'cause I could get out of school.
I can see it in even great actors' performances, when they're phoning it in.
On the set for 'Beetlejuice,' it was before people would go watch on monitors, and directors would be next to the camera.
It's interesting because, even with 'Beetlejuice,' I was an awkward kid. I started at puberty and went through it on film. Lydia was one of my favorite roles because I related to her a lot.
I just did what I found interesting. I was so lucky that I was able to do that, especially in the '90s. I was really able to have a life to go back to.
I did this little movie I really love called 'Experimenter,' but that took six years to get made and no money.
I'm not someone like Norma Desmond who's harking back to her younger days.
I would not want to go back to playing the ingenue.
I did 'Beetlejuice,' and it was a big movie, but it didn't help my high-school experience. In fact, it made it worse. I was a freak and a witch.
One of my worst fears is being a self-indulgent person.
I've always been super-private and protective of certain experiences and certain friends.
My home is San Francisco - that is definitely what I consider my home.
I'm just coming from a more personal - and, I guess, more nostalgic - point of view.
Some people go to L.A. just to see recognizable people. There are tour buses. But in New York, everyone seems a little less into that.
Usually, the roles that you get offered that are the mom roles are very much the mom role.