Quotes from Winona Ryder

That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.

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

It's great concentrating so hard you feel your brain will explode.

You've got to grow up sometime.

As a teenager, I worked on Indian reservations, and it was such an incredible culture: the elders are so respected.

It's 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.

What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.

I've always been super-private and protective of certain experiences and certain friends.

People don't realise how much tension they hold in their forearms.

I binge-watched this show 'Damages.' Glenn Close and Rose Byrne are so good. Lily Tomlin is in it. You see all these great actors, and the writing is terrific. There are a lot of shows like that.

Looking back - I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.

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

As a character, it's very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.

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 think it's really important to have a life outside of this [movie] business and just be the best person you can be.

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.

But I've always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate - at least as far as possible - from the kind of illusory lifestyle that comes with being a celebrity.

I love getting older. I think it has to do with always being the kid on set.

There was a time when all that mattered was that you were in a good movie.

I want to be a good friend, a good sister, a good person and a good actress.

I'm part of the crew obsessed with 'The Wire.' Like, I'm not over that yet.

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 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.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.