Quotes from Winona Ryder

I don't have any interest in being a movie star.

When your parents are madly in love for 45 years, your standards are really high.

The description of my character in the first few movies I did was always 'nerdy,' but I liked that; it was way more interesting.

I'm getting asked a lot, 'You don't have kids, so how do you know how to act like a mother?' I know nothing could compare, and I haven't 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 didn't even know yet.

I remember when I did Little Women, I didn't watch the Katharine Hepburn one over and over, which I thought I would do. Heathers, I was completely obsessed with.

I wanted to be just a normal girl flirting with a normal guy. It's like, you meet people, and they know this stuff about you. It's why you want to meet somebody who's in the same business, only because they understand more. But you don't necessarily want to be with another actor.

I'm not interested in playing the girl that's just there to make the guy, you know, give him a talking to.

It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.

I was unusual looking - I didn't have the look of that time. If you look at 'Lucas' - and, basically, my first five or six movies - the characters are not described in the scripts as attractive people.

I'm the type who'd rather not work than work on something I'm not into. I've done that a couple of times, and I feel like I can totally see it in my performance.

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?

I was fired from a movie because I did 'Heathers!' I was cast in a movie, and the director saw an advance screening and was offended by it and fired me.

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

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

I love watching old movies, and I read a lot of autobiographies.

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.

I feel a little stronger than people perceive me.

Even though I never really had to pound the pavement as an actor, I always worked really hard. But, at the same time, I always felt like people thought that I didn't have to struggle even though I was struggling.

Focus should be on the art of film, not on the business of film.

I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.

You have to work to be relevant. If you don't, then people will forget, and the studios won't want you because they won't remember the last thing you did that made money.

I'm not a big one on - I don't know what to call it - getting all glamorous. I don't really worry about my looks, and I don't worry about getting old. Exterior beauty doesn't mean a lot to me.

When you finally accept that its OK not to have answers and its OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.