Winona Ryder Quotes

5 quotations by Winona Ryder

I don't feel threatened like Julia Roberts. Pretty Woman turned her into an overnight celebrity rather than an actress. Now her whole career is about box-office - if her movies don't break $l00 million. It's not a burden I'd ever want to carry.

[about the shoplifting arrest] I didn't have this tremendous sense of guilt because I hadn't hurt anyone. Had I physically harmed someone or caused harm to a human being, I think it would have been an entirely different experience.

For a long time I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.

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

I read biographies of the greats, and they were so messed up that I thought I'd better mess myself up. But I couldn't. I'm too small.