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Winona Ryder

(1971) Actor United States

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Winona Ryder is an actor from the United States, best known for Experimenter.

Quick Facts About Winona Ryder

Born: October 29, 1971
Nationality: United States
Profession: Actor
Notable works: Experimenter

About Winona Ryder

Winona Laura Horowitz, known as Winona Ryder, first attracted attention playing quirky characters in the late 1980s. In the 1990s she shifted to more dramatic roles. She has won a Golden Globe and has been nominated for two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Grammy Award.

Awards & Honors

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Jupiter Awards Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Quotes by Winona Ryder · Page 2

It's great concentrating so hard you feel your brain will explode.

Brain

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In high school, I dressed up as every James Bond girl. I was a teenage Pussy Galore.

Bond girl

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Most of my wardrobe is vintage, and I've worn dresses to the Oscars that I got for $10,

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Bette Davis in All About Eve was huge for me. Her acting was staggering.

Acting

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I'm part of the crew obsessed with 'The Wire.' Like, I'm not over that yet.

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I'm not a drug user myself. I'm too little to take drugs - my body can't take it.

Body

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I have my email on my Blackberry, and that's about it.

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When your parents are madly in love for 45 years, your standards are really high.

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I'm not interested in playing the girl that's just there to make the guy, you know, give him a talking to.

Girl

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I've always been super-private and protective of certain experiences and certain friends.

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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.

Culture

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I did this little movie I really love called 'Experimenter,' but that took six years to get made and no money.

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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…

Internet

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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…

Being

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I did 'Beetlejuice,' and it was a big movie, but it didn't help my high-school experience. In fact, it made it worse.…

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I've been embracing aging. I always have, since I was a kid. When you're the kid on the set for so long,…

Aging

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I was very obsessed with Ruth Gordon. I really didn't foresee me having any type of career as a leading lady at…

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I'm too young to play lawyers. But I've been really lucky because I never got labeled. I never did the John Hughes…

Adults

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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,…

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I approached work very seriously. I never went out. I couldn't fathom people who could go out to clubs... But I definitely…

Clubs

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I got to work with Gena Rowlands when I did Night on Earth, and the movie was just you and someone else…

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I thought it was a cool parallel. Being replaced by the young thing. I know that definitely happens in Hollywood. It's harder…

Age

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Ive been asked about ambition before and I dont feel that ambitious because I started so young and it was very fun.…

Ambition

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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…

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I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.

Desire

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I don't want to preach, and I don't want to tell people what to do.

People

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Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.

Amplified

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I'm just coming from a more personal - and, I guess, more nostalgic - point of view.

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People don't realise how much tension they hold in their forearms.

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Dear Diary: My teen angst bullshit now has a body count.

Angst

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My home is San Francisco - that is definitely what I consider my home.

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I don't believe I am influencing anybody but myself.

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The 1980s was the era of the blonde cheerleader.

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I don't have any interest in being a movie star.

Being

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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?

Actor

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I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.

Cinema

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You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

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My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.

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There was a time when all that mattered was that you were in a good movie.

Cinema

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I would never give advice, because I would feel very presumptuous.

Advice

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