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Most Actors Don't Know What They're Going To Do Next, So You Get Into This Thing Where You Have To Force Yourself To Have Another Life Outside Of Acting. And Then, As Soon As You Start Something In This Sort Of Normal Life That You're Trying To Live, You Get A Job. So You Have This Constant Struggle Because You Want To Be Able To Commit To Things And To Finish Things In Your Life, But Then You Also Want To Be Able To Act.

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Winona Ryder

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Most Actors Don't Know What They're Going To Do Next, So You Get Into This Thing Where You Have To Force Yourself To Have Another Life Outside Of Acting. And Then, As Soon As You Start Something In This Sort Of Normal Life That You're Trying To Live, You Get A Job. So You Have This Constant Struggle Because You Want To Be Able To Commit To Things And To Finish Things In Your Life, But Then You Also Want To Be Able To Act.

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I Was Not The First Choice For Veronica In Heathers. I Auditioned And They Were Like, "oh, Thanks." And I Went To The Beverly Center To Macy's And Had Them Do A Makeover On Me. I Went Back Because I Kind Of Knew That They Thought I Wasn't Pretty Enough. They Were Trying To Get Jennifer Connelly.

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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.

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A Lot Of Filmmakers And Actors Say, "it's So Important To Bring An Authenticity To The Role," Blah, Blah, Blah. But Then It's Interesting Because You're Also Trying To Be Somebody Else, And Viewers Are Going To Associate You With That, So I Don't Think It Really Has An Answer.

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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.

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Great Opportunity

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I'm Not Into Wrinkles.

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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.

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There's Like This Great Thing That Bette Davis Said When Someone Asked Her, "how Do You Get Into Hollywood?" "take Fountain!"

I Remember Realizing, When I Did Little Women [1994], That That Was The Only Time Girls That Age Were Being Written About. It Was Always Boys - From David Copperfield To Lord Of The Flies To Holden Caulfield. There Were Never Young Women Going Through Adolescence Or Teen Years; There Were Only Little Girls.

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You're Lucky If You're In Three Great Movies, Or Even One Great Movie. I've Been So Lucky. But If You Rely On The Business To Dictate Whether You're Happy, It Gets Really Complicated. You Just Can't Do That. There Have Been Times In My Life That I've Done That, And I've Found It Depressing.

I Was Very Lucky Because Tim Burton Really Gave Me A Career. I Don't Think Hollywood Would've Known What To Do With Me. If I Hadn't Done 'beetlejuice,' I Think I Would've Just Gone Back To My School.

If You're A Musician, You Can Practice Your Guitar Every Day And Write Songs, But When You're An Actor, You Can't Just Like Burst Into A Monologue. Your Only Exercise Is When You're In Prep Or You're Working.

How I Was Raised Was, There Were No Rules - Nothing Like That. If I Wanted To Take A Drug Because I Was In School And Everybody Was Doing It, I Could Go To My Parents And Say, "i Really Want To Try This." And They'd Say, "if You Do This, O.k., But This Is What Can Happen To You..." They'd Say, "don't Get It In The Streets, Because It Could Be Really Bad And Make You Freak Out. Don't Take It In A Crowded Place, Because You'll Panic."

In Retrospect, I Went To Jane Fonda For Literally Everything. During Mermaids, We Were Staying In The Same Building, So She Was Right Upstairs From Me. I Was In My First Relationship, So I Got All Sorts Of Advice. She Became Famous In Her Late Teens.

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