271 Quotes by Winona Ryder

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.

When I met Johnny, I was pure virgin. He changed that. He was my first everything. My first real kiss. My first real boyfriend. My first fiancé. The first guy I had sex with. So he'll always be in my heart. Forever. Kind of funny that word.

If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.

Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.

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.

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn't go out.

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.