Winona Ryder is a film actress known for dark, quirky roles in such films as 'Heathers' and 'Girl, Interrupted.' In 2016 she made a career comeback with Netflix's hit show 'Stranger Things.' Born: Winona Laura Horowitz October 29, 1971 (age 47) Winona, Minnesota, U.S.
Winona Ryder's Life Keeps Getting Stranger
- Nationality: American
- Occupation: Actress film producer
- Years active: 1985–present
- Partner(s): Johnny Depp (1990–1993) Scott Mackinlay Hahn (2011–present)
- Parent(s): Michael D. Horowitz Cynthia Palmer (née Istas)
List of Top 127 Winona Ryder Quotes
- What you wear - and it always starts with your shoes - determines what kind of character you are. A woman who wears high heels carries herself very different to a girl who wears sneakers or sandals. It really helps determine how you carry yourself. Winona Ryder
- Yourself Girl You Character When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being. Winona Ryder
- You Feeling Confused Perfect I'm getting asked a lot, 'You don't have kids, so how do you know how to act like a mother?' I know nothing could compare, and I haven't had that experience, but when my niece was born, I felt like I would jump in front of a car and die for this little person I didn't even know yet. Winona Ryder
- Mother Car You Experience You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused. Winona Ryder
- You Broken Money Feeling Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone. Winona Ryder
- Alone Peace You People You've got to grow up sometime. Winona Ryder
- You Grow Teen Grow Up 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. Winona Ryder
- Life Day Learning Confidence People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them. Winona Ryder
- People Woman Waiting Think I'm part of the crew obsessed with 'The Wire.' Like, I'm not over that yet. Winona Ryder
- Like Over Crew Part There was a time when all that mattered was that you were in a good movie. Winona Ryder
- Good Time You Good Movie Top 10 Winona Ryder
- QUOTES View the list 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. Winona Ryder
- Heart Follow Your Heart Your Follow 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. Winona Ryder
- Time Depression Crazy Thought When I'm acting well, it's the most exhilarating experience. When I'm bad, it's miserable. Winona Ryder
- Experience Bad Acting Miserable I went from weirdo teenager to pixie waif to them not knowing what the hell to do with me. Winona Ryder
- Me Hell Not Knowing Knowing It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd. Winona Ryder
- Me People Go Always 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. Winona Ryder
- Business Girl You People 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. Winona Ryder
- Me Women People Think Remember when you were a kid, and everyone used to say, 'Would you rather be interested or interesting?' And to me, it was always like, 'Interested!' How is that even a question? I feel very lucky that I'm just really, really interested in a lot of things. Winona Ryder
- Me You Feel Remember It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future. Winona Ryder
- Positive Good Future Fall But I've always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate - at least as far as possible - from the kind of illusory lifestyle that comes with being a celebrity. Winona Ryder
- Life Lifestyle Always Need I'm used to being told what to say, but not what to think... that's usually left up to me. Winona Ryder
- Me Think Left Say With 'Ed Wood,' I sobbed. With 'Frankenweenie,' I was crying. With 'Edward Scissorhands,' I always cry. There's always an incredible amount of purity, even if they look a certain way. Winona Ryder
- Look Cry Way Always On the set for 'Beetlejuice,' it was before people would go watch on monitors, and directors would be next to the camera. Winona Ryder
- People Camera Go Watch In real life, and for women everywhere, no matter what their job is, your 30s and your 40s and beyond should be celebrated. Winona Ryder
- Life Women Job Your When I think about the stuff I've turned down or the stuff I wasn't interested in, I don't have any regrets. Yes, there were some movies that went on to be really popular. But now, how do they really fit into things? Winona Ryder
- Think Down Movies Things The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think. Winona Ryder
- Yourself You People Think I've always been fascinated with twins. Winona Ryder
- Always Twins Been Fascinated The 1980s was the era of the blonde cheerleader. Winona Ryder Blonde 1980s Cheerleader Era You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that. Winona Ryder
- You World Feel Go It's great concentrating so hard you feel your brain will explode. Winona Ryder
- You Great Brain Feel 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. Winona Ryder
- You People Tough Picture I want to be a good friend, a good sister, a good person and a good actress. Winona Ryder
- Good Sister Friend Good Person I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time. Winona Ryder
- Myself Time School Long Usually, the roles that you get offered that are the mom roles are very much the mom role. Winona Ryder
- You Mom Get Role 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. Winona Ryder
- People Money Thought Situation 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.' Winona Ryder
- Loved Feel Movies Lucky I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist. Winona Ryder
- Love Father Photography First 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!' Winona Ryder
- God Watching Like Film I'm just coming from a more personal - and, I guess, more nostalgic - point of view. Winona Ryder
- View Point Of View More Personal I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book. Winona Ryder
- You Man Truth Book I've learned that it's OK to be flawed. Winona Ryder
- OK Learned Flawed I don't believe I am influencing anybody but myself. Winona Ryder
- Myself I Am Believe Anybody 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. Winona Ryder
- Love Sad Society Story I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties. Winona Ryder
- Start Teen Growing Up Up You try to get out there and live. I've always had good friends who've been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I've never felt attached to the film industry. Winona Ryder
- Good Me You Friends I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all. Winona Ryder
- Business Side Out Hang That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about. Winona Ryder
- Business You People Wrong 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. Winona Ryder
- Life Me My Life Process Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level. Winona Ryder
- I Am You People Money Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life. Winona Ryder
- Life My Life School Remember My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends. Winona Ryder
- Life Best Music Me I feel my best when I'm happy. Winona Ryder
- Best Happy Feel I Feel I'm not into wrinkles. Winona Ryder
- Wrinkles It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think? Winona Ryder
- Good You Hate Feeling 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. Winona Ryder
- Time You Remember Old 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. Winona Ryder
- Myself Looking Long Camera If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'. Winona Ryder
- Girl You Ugly Movies 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. Winona Ryder
- Time People Long Long Time 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. Winona Ryder
- Mother Best Me Father I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors. Winona Ryder
- Love Best I Love Ford 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. Winona Ryder
- You People Think Okay I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record. Winona Ryder
- Love Sound Books Going My parents are awesome, but they're pretty left-wing. Winona Ryder
- Parents Pretty Awesome Left-Wing 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. Winona Ryder
- Love Parents Broken Together I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else. Winona Ryder
- People Never Acting Writing 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. Winona Ryder
- Loved Think Remember Movies I'm not interested in playing the girl that's just there to make the guy, you know, give him a talking to. Winona Ryder
- Girl You Know Talking 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. Winona Ryder
- Me School Think Back 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. Winona Ryder
- Good Family Me Daughter 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. Winona Ryder
- Life You Happy Baby 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. Winona Ryder
- Life Work Time Perspective I don't use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it. Winona Ryder
- You Internet Find Everything 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. Winona Ryder
- Work Feel I Can 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. Winona Ryder
- Love Girl Dream Play 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. Winona Ryder
- Good I Am You Experience 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
- Myself Me Happy Feel 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. Winona Ryder
- Me Yourself You Someone I love getting older. I think it has to do with always being the kid on set. Winona Ryder
- Love Getting Older Think Always 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. Winona Ryder
- Dating Thought Know Always 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. Winona Ryder
- Think Never Wrong Divorce When your parents are madly in love for 45 years, your standards are really high. Winona Ryder
- Love Parents Your High 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. Winona Ryder
- Work You People 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. Winona Ryder
- You People Your Doing 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. Winona Ryder
- Me Director Offended Because 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. Winona Ryder
- Me Time You Waiting 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. Winona Ryder
- Me I Am Think Bad I get sent a lot of scripts where you're just the mom. Winona Ryder
- You Mom Just Where I love watching old movies, and I read a lot of autobiographies. Winona Ryder
- Love Movies Old Watching Apparently, Bette Davis and a lot of actresses had a hard time in their 30s, too. Winona Ryder
- Time Hard Too Lot 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. Winona Ryder
- Me Waiting Loved Past I have my email on my Blackberry, and that's about it. Winona Ryder
- Email About Blackberry 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. Winona Ryder
- Good School Remember Out I can see it in even great actors' performances, when they're phoning it in. Winona Ryder
- Great I Can See Even 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. Winona Ryder
- Interesting Kid Awkward Through 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. Winona Ryder
- Life Back Go Lucky 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. Winona Ryder
- Good You Rose Great I did this little movie I really love called 'Experimenter,' but that took six years to get made and no money. Winona Ryder
- Love Money Years Get I'm not someone like Norma Desmond who's harking back to her younger days. Winona Ryder
- Someone Back Like Days I would not want to go back to playing the ingenue. Winona Ryder
- Back Go Want Playing 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. Winona Ryder
- Experience Help Big Freak One of my worst fears is being a self-indulgent person. Winona Ryder Worst Person Being Fears I've always been super-private and protective of certain experiences and certain friends. Winona Ryder
- Friends Always Experiences Been My home is San Francisco - that is definitely what I consider my home. Winona Ryder
- Home San Francisco Definitely San 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. Winona Ryder
- People Go See Some People The Duffers can be super articulate or very straight to the point. I was really impressed with how they were with each other. Winona Ryder
- How Point Straight Really There are certain directors who will start talking to you about something, and suddenly you'll be ready to roll, and you'll realize it was very specific. Winona Ryder
- You Start Talking Realize 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. Winona Ryder
- Me Time Movies Talking I don't have any interest in being a movie star. Winona Ryder
- Being Interest Star Movie Star It was hard to find that transition to adult roles. Winona Ryder
- Hard Find Adult Transition My favourite performances are by actresses like Bette Davis in 'All About Eve' or Gena Rowlands in pretty much anything - performances that have nothing to do with age. Winona Ryder
- Age Nothing Pretty Like As a teenager, I worked on Indian reservations, and it was such an incredible culture: the elders are so respected. Winona Ryder
- Culture Elders Indian Respected I've been embracing aging. I always have, since I was a kid. When you're the kid on the set for so long, you just, like, daydream about being older. Winona Ryder
- You Long Aging Always Part of me feels like when you had a lot of success in your teens and 20s, it gets harder for you in your 30s because people are so attached to you as this ingenue. So even though you're older, they still think of you as that girl - that waifish young girl. And so it was sort of like a struggle. Winona Ryder
- Success Me Girl You I don't have a director's mind. Winona Ryder
- Mind Director I would have to say 'The Crucible' stands out because it was one of the best experiences I've ever had, but, you know, Arthur Miller being present on the set - which was wonderful and incredible - but, to have him in your eye line is quite intimidating. It's such a beautiful language he created, so that was challenging but exciting. Winona Ryder
- Beautiful Best You Eye 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
- Time People Struggle Thought I approached work very seriously. I never went out. I couldn't fathom people who could go out to clubs... I mean, if I had a 6 A.M. call, I had to be prepared. I had to be in bed at a certain hour. Winona Ryder
- Work People Never Go My problems seemed so glamorous to other people, and everyone just thought I was so lucky. But then, I was lucky because my family was really there for me - San Francisco was a real refuge. Winona Ryder
- Family Me People Problems It's like, sometimes I'll watch a movie, and it's got some big star in it playing a working-class person, and the character is in a grocery store, and you can kind of tell, from just watching the scene, that this actor doesn't do their own shopping. So you have to have some sense of reality. Winona Ryder
- You Character Shopping Reality I feel a little stronger than people perceive me. Winona Ryder
- Me People Feel Stronger I definitely count my blessings. I feel like I've had such a great ride. Early on, to be able to work with some of the people I did, I feel really lucky. Winona Ryder
- Work Ride People Great 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. Winona Ryder
- Time You Looking People Honestly, if it wasn't for 'Beetlejuice,' where would I be? That movie was a big thing for me. Winona Ryder
- Me Big Where Thing I remember a lot of conversations where I was constantly hearing, 'You've gotta do this movie so you can do that movie. You've gotta make a big movie so you can make a small movie.' But I can't act like that. Winona Ryder
- You Remember Small Big I would never give advice, because I would feel very presumptuous. Winona Ryder
- Feel Never Advice Give The description of my character in the first few movies I did was always 'nerdy,' but I liked that; it was way more interesting. Winona Ryder
- Character Way Movies Always People don't realise how much tension they hold in their forearms. Winona Ryder
- People Tension How Hold
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