Explore Quotes by Winona Ryder

I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record.

I don't use the Internet, but apparently you can find out everything on it.

I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed.

If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.

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

I feel my best when I'm happy.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

You've got to grow up sometime.

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.

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.

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.

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?

When I met Johnny, I was pure virgin. He changed that. He was my first everything. My first real kiss. My first real boyfriend. My first fiancé. The first guy I had sex with. So he'll always be in my heart. Forever. Kind of funny that word.

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