Post by Charles on Sept 29, 2002 14:14:46 GMT -5
IloveWinona (Rusty)
"Quirky. If anyone calls me quirky again, I think they should be shot." Winona to Rolling Stone magazine.
Winona Says to Figure It Out for Yourself. "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."
Wise Winona Witticisms ---- "Some people think that: 'She never struggled.' So sue me, you know? What do they want? More and more lately, I deal with blatant jealousy. If I were jealous of someone, I wouldn't be blatant about it. People get so strange here."
Wise Winona Witticisms---- "It's weird when I hear that term [glamorous] associated with me. This sounds so corny, but it's like I'm playing a character when I get to be glamorous. I can't take it seriously, because in real life I feel like a nimrod. But it's fun to do."
"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." ---Winona to Godfather Timothy Leary in 1989.
"To a true artist the career stuff shouldn't matter, but it matters to too many of those people who call themselves actors but are really just posers, I'm thrilled if one of my movies is a hit. But you should do what hits you. If I'm in a movie and I'm not really into it, then I feel like I'm lying, and maybe other people will pick up on the fact that I'm lying."
"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." Winona talking to "Esquire"
"For a long time, I was almost ashamed to be an actress, I felt like it was a shallow occupation." When she sees other actors who choose to live as if they are poor, she gets mad. "It offends me, because I know what it's like to be in poverty, and it's not fun, and it's not romantic, and it's not cool."
About her checking into a psychiatric hospital.------- "I really got nothing from it. It didn't help me at all. But the thing that I did 'get' is that those places don't really help. You don't go to a place and get a pill that fixes you. They don't give you a sheet of secret answers. You can't pay enough money to have a place fix you." ---------To The Toronto Sun
About the movie "Girl,Interrupted" and teenagers --------- "Life is just weird. Life is a mess, I hope teenagers who feel alone out there will see this movie and say 'Thank God.' If I had seen this movie at nineteen, I would have taken a lot of comfort in it."
"Having people look up to me freaks me out. It's actually motivating, because it makes me want to do a really good job. But what if I do something really stupid? That could, like, shatter somebody's image of me. So I don't have the freedom to do really stupid things." She laughs. "Which 'is' what I'm striving for!"
"Not at all. I thought I was going to get therapy but I really got nothing from it. But the thing that I did 'get' is that you don't go to a place and get a pill that fixes you. They don't give you a sheet of secret answers. You can't pay enough money to have a place fix you. Which is incredibly upsetting when you think that you can.
I thought, 'I have money and, if I pay them enough, they're going to have to give me some sort of cure for just feeling broken and confused and just way too sensitive for this insane world.' But it didn't work like that. I left there feeling just the same and just as tired.
In the end, you have to figure it out for yourself. I just had to either choose to move on or stay miserable. And I chose to move on."
About her favorite book. ----------- "My all-time favorite novel is "Catcher in the Rye". It's my Bible. I bet I've read it fifty times. It was my dad's favorite book, too. I was crushed when I found out a whole generation discovered it before me."
About drugs --------- "I don't do things that are harmful to me. I've already seen actors who have been very destructive. As soon as they are a success they get messed up."
"Quirky. If anyone calls me quirky again, I think they should be shot." Winona to Rolling Stone magazine.
Winona Says to Figure It Out for Yourself. "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."
Wise Winona Witticisms ---- "Some people think that: 'She never struggled.' So sue me, you know? What do they want? More and more lately, I deal with blatant jealousy. If I were jealous of someone, I wouldn't be blatant about it. People get so strange here."
Wise Winona Witticisms---- "It's weird when I hear that term [glamorous] associated with me. This sounds so corny, but it's like I'm playing a character when I get to be glamorous. I can't take it seriously, because in real life I feel like a nimrod. But it's fun to do."
"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." ---Winona to Godfather Timothy Leary in 1989.
"To a true artist the career stuff shouldn't matter, but it matters to too many of those people who call themselves actors but are really just posers, I'm thrilled if one of my movies is a hit. But you should do what hits you. If I'm in a movie and I'm not really into it, then I feel like I'm lying, and maybe other people will pick up on the fact that I'm lying."
"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." Winona talking to "Esquire"
"For a long time, I was almost ashamed to be an actress, I felt like it was a shallow occupation." When she sees other actors who choose to live as if they are poor, she gets mad. "It offends me, because I know what it's like to be in poverty, and it's not fun, and it's not romantic, and it's not cool."
About her checking into a psychiatric hospital.------- "I really got nothing from it. It didn't help me at all. But the thing that I did 'get' is that those places don't really help. You don't go to a place and get a pill that fixes you. They don't give you a sheet of secret answers. You can't pay enough money to have a place fix you." ---------To The Toronto Sun
About the movie "Girl,Interrupted" and teenagers --------- "Life is just weird. Life is a mess, I hope teenagers who feel alone out there will see this movie and say 'Thank God.' If I had seen this movie at nineteen, I would have taken a lot of comfort in it."
"Having people look up to me freaks me out. It's actually motivating, because it makes me want to do a really good job. But what if I do something really stupid? That could, like, shatter somebody's image of me. So I don't have the freedom to do really stupid things." She laughs. "Which 'is' what I'm striving for!"
"Not at all. I thought I was going to get therapy but I really got nothing from it. But the thing that I did 'get' is that you don't go to a place and get a pill that fixes you. They don't give you a sheet of secret answers. You can't pay enough money to have a place fix you. Which is incredibly upsetting when you think that you can.
I thought, 'I have money and, if I pay them enough, they're going to have to give me some sort of cure for just feeling broken and confused and just way too sensitive for this insane world.' But it didn't work like that. I left there feeling just the same and just as tired.
In the end, you have to figure it out for yourself. I just had to either choose to move on or stay miserable. And I chose to move on."
About her favorite book. ----------- "My all-time favorite novel is "Catcher in the Rye". It's my Bible. I bet I've read it fifty times. It was my dad's favorite book, too. I was crushed when I found out a whole generation discovered it before me."
About drugs --------- "I don't do things that are harmful to me. I've already seen actors who have been very destructive. As soon as they are a success they get messed up."