Quotes by Winona Ryder

Whats awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. Thats scary, and they just seem to think its okay to do it, like youre public property.

Its part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as whats been printed about me.

I have this sense that I didnt really start growing up until my twenties.

Youve got to grow up sometime.

My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So Im very interested in the music scene and I suppose thats why Ive ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends.

Im getting asked a lot, You dont have kids, so how do you know how to act like a mother? I know nothing could compare, and I havent had that experience, but when my niece was born, I felt like I would jump in front of a car and die for this little person I didnt even know yet.

Its also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. Im not the only actress out there, and good parts just dont fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films Ive made recently and so Im pretty positive about the future.

Im quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because Ive been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.

Its an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk.

I get sent a lot of scripts where youre just the mom.

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

I was single for a while and dating and... I just didnt know how to do it! Ive 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.

You cant pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

Weird people follow you in the streets, you cant sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.