Explore Quotes by Winona Ryder

Usually, the roles that you get offered that are the mom roles are very much the mom role.

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

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.

I'm not someone like Norma Desmond who's harking back to her younger days.

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

On the set for 'Beetlejuice,' it was before people would go watch on monitors, and directors would be next to the camera.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.