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Post by imayne on May 1, 2010 4:03:58 GMT -5
One from her recent BlackBook interview explaining why she did so little films for so long.
¡°One of the worst things you can be is mediocre,¡± she says. ¡°I get offered a lot of studio things¡ªyou wouldn¡¯t believe some of the stuff I turn down that then gets packaged with two movie stars. I¡¯m getting a lot of horror movie offers, too, but I just don¡¯t like the ones where you have to cut off your own arm to escape the killer. Or,¡± and here she imitates the nicotine-soaked baritone that plays over trailers for budget slashers, ¡°What if people did horrific things to your daughter and then they were trapped inside your house?¡±
Boo hoo, you made Wes Craven CRY! But hell, I think Mr Craven can live with that.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2010 7:18:12 GMT -5
Boo hoo, you made Wes Craven CRY! But hell, I think Mr Craven can live with that. Wow! I happen to think its more than okay with those decisions Winona makes in not excepting films that she may consider crappy. What the heck, man? That last comment's bottom line was simply anti-Winona swill at its terrible best. Hey, guess what, Perez Hilton called, he wants his attitude back. Yep, yep.
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Post by imayne on May 1, 2010 8:27:04 GMT -5
DL, how likely is Wes Craven to cry anyway at a remark that Winona makes? I think he might really enjoy what Winona said. Wow! I happen to think its more than okay with those decisions Winona makes in not excepting films that she may consider crappy. What the heck, man? That last comment's bottom line was simply anti-Winona swill at its terrible best. Hey, guess what, Perez Hilton called, he wants his attitude back. Yep, yep.
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Post by Charles on May 1, 2010 16:08:15 GMT -5
On being Pure . . .
"I think I'm pretty pure. I don't know. Every day is a struggle to be these things, but it's worth it. It's really easy to be depressed and be a bad person, and dishonest, and it's hard to be good and honest and happy. It takes effort, it's scarier, but it's so much better."
Source: Vogue, October 1993
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Post by Charles on May 4, 2010 16:53:05 GMT -5
On her passion for acting
"Sometimes I think it's an outlet, sometimes the opposite. It fills me up and I don't know where to put it. I guess I sweat it out in my sleep or something. It's great concentrating so hard you feel your brain will explode. When I'm acting well, it's the most exhilarating experience. When I'm bad, it's miserable. I feel like I'm lying to people . . . and that I have to finish lying so that I - and they - can go home. I feel like I'm gypping people, wasting their time."
Source: Los Angeles Times December 1990
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Post by Charles on May 4, 2010 16:56:19 GMT -5
On differences in pay between men and women
"I get paid very well, but it's just weird when even though you're being paid really well, you're working with an actor who is not as accomplished as you and not even as famous as you, and he is being paid more than you. That, I've never understood - and it's happened to me a couple of times just because they were men."
Source: New Woman April 1994
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Post by Charles on May 8, 2010 12:01:39 GMT -5
About her parents and acting
"My parents really didn't want me to be an actress at first. They were afraid that I was too young. That it would take me away from home. But I told them that I had to act and eventually they realised that I really wanted to do it."
About T. Leary
"I don't see that much of Tim Leary any more, but about a year ago he showed me this crazy video that he had done about some psychedelic phenomenon. I didn't understand it at all and I told him. 'You know, Tim, you always taught me to question authority and you've always been my authority - now I'm questioning you."[/color]
Source for both: The Guardian Weekend, March 1995
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Post by Charles on May 10, 2010 15:58:28 GMT -5
On her personal life
"I don't mean to sound conceited, but when people talk about me, they talk about my work or my movies or that I'm an actress. They don't talk about my personal life so much because I don't have a very exciting one."
On not being a big star
"I wouldn't want to be a big movie star. I think my life would be incredibly complicated if I was."
Source for both: Stars & Stripes, February 1998
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2010 19:57:21 GMT -5
On her personal life
"I don't mean to sound conceited, but when people talk about me, they talk about my work or my movies or that I'm an actress. They don't talk about my personal life so much because I don't have a very exciting one."
On not being a big star
"I wouldn't want to be a big movie star. I think my life would be incredibly complicated if I was."Source for both: Stars & Stripes, February 1998 I just love these quotes of hers, Charles. Okay, suspend your critical disbelief, guys...@ms. Ryder -- Yeah, right. I actually think you were being either rather modest or unneccessarily insecure there even though its been quite a while since you said these lines. And you may be right about being a big movie star. Too much responsibility in my mind. Yep. Although it does seem a little cool to be that for a time - - w/o the usual pitfalls, of course. Anyhow, with my kind of luck I would probably have myself falling in the biggest known hole ever of any celebrity if I were one! I think I'll stick to my writing. Its better to be behind a great thing, than way ahead of it, I think. Yep.
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Post by Charles on May 11, 2010 17:34:07 GMT -5
About her depression while shooting The House of Spirits
"I ignored myself, my 'needs'. I put my career in front of my life. I remember so many of my favorite actors saying 'My work is my life.' And it's not... "
On Suicidal Thoughts
"I told my mother I wanted to kill myself so I could see what it was like after," says Winona. Someone asks, "How old were you?" "About six," she says, sipping lemonade.
Source: Life Magazine, December 1994
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Post by Charles on May 20, 2010 16:54:57 GMT -5
On dancing in Mermaids
I've always been a little uncomfortable with dancing. I guess I was a little nervous, but it was a lot of fun, a lot of energy, and I don't know how many takes, wasn't that many though. It was the last day of shooting which was great, so we had the whole movie behind us, so we were really excited.
On nudity
"I've always been very shy and I'm not comfortable with nudity, even with the guys I have spent time with. It would take an incredible film with a beautiful scene to ever get me to appear naked. And you'd still have to get me to drink a bottle of vodka to do it."[/color]
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Post by Charles on May 25, 2010 12:53:40 GMT -5
On playing teenagers
In 1990, when someone asked her why she always played teenagers, she replied: "Well, what am I supposed to do, play a judge?"
On being “quirky”
"Quirky. If anyone calls me quirky again, I think they should be shot."[/color]
Source: Rolling Stone magazine
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Post by imayne on May 25, 2010 21:52:20 GMT -5
from her Blackbook interview:
“What I found so interesting,” says Ryder, “was that if you did something sort of normal-crazy, like taking a bottle of aspirin, you were locked up for years. Now, they won’t hold you if you say you’re schizophrenic and you’re going to kill yourself or someone else. You can thank Reagan for that one.”
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Post by Charles on May 29, 2010 8:19:47 GMT -5
The quotes in the following series of posts were assembled by our own Rusty.
Winona Says to Figure It Out for Yourself.
"Somebody wrote 'Winona Ryder is my role model' and I was really flattered, but then I got to thinking about it and I started getting scared. I'm really going to have to watch what I do, watch what I say. I feel an instinctive responsibility."
Source: Winona to Godfather Timothy Leary in 1989.
"I don't want to be the spokesperson of my generation. I don't want to be any sort of leader. People should really find out for themselves how they feel about things. I hate it when actors start talking about something and they get asked a question and they don't know how to answer it. That's so embarrassing. I won't put myself in that position."
"I think it's great for my generation to grow up politically active and do what they can for what they really believe in, but it has to be for something they know about, because so many times I hear actors talking about politics and I can tell that if someone asked them a question they probably wouldn't be able to answer it."
Source: Winona talking to "Esquire"
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2017 2:17:20 GMT -5
'I feel like it sounds ridiculous for me to talk about ageism, because I’ve been very lucky, in the sense that in other people’s eyes, I’ve maintained this [youthfulness], but I wish society could just celebrate ageing and it could be more of a goal. I do enjoy getting older.’
Anywakey...
...As I leaned over my sunken sink in the bathroom, peering closer and closer into the mirror, I noticed a very strange thing happening right before my eyes - a new, long wrinkle, actually forming into view, above and between my crooked eyebrows. Startled, I stood up straight too quickly, pulling that d**n muscle in my lower back again.
I winced long, the agony permanantly now took away any youthful ecstasy I possibly had left.
Do I embrace getting older?
Um, NO!!!!
So, Be Good ... my back won't.
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