- (On what happened when she started out in the film business) When I used to go to auditions, I would be told "If Winona Ryder doesn't get it, you will.". Hollywood makes so many movies - surely Winona can't do ALL of them!
- (Cosmo Magazine, April 2005 issue) Look, I love being famous. I'm not one of those people who feels like, Why won't they leave me alone? If I care only about the craft of acting, I'd be doing dinner theater in Iowa. But the attention on you gets to a point where it's beyond invasive - it's scary.
- I'm Irish Catholic, so a Democrat by blood. But I'm one hundred per cent for Bush. I want my president to be like my agent - not afraid of people, but wants my best interest.
- Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
- I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.
- David created such an atmosphere of fantastic strangeness. I remember, in the pilot, I did a very long scene that we had to shoot 30 or 40 times. David came up to me and said quietly, in my ear: "Think of how gently a deer has to move in the snow..." It was strange direction. But that's what I thought of, and it worked.
- The show's explosion in popularity was, from the inside, very strange. I don't think many of us had a clue what to do. I didn't know it was odd that people were playing the music from Twin Peaks in their cars. I didn't know that it was odd to be on the cover of Rolling Stone at 20 years old.
- Twin Peaks gave me everything I have as an actor. It put me where I am now because it was so beautifully soulful, and I think it just brought out the best of the actors.
- I am very opinionated. I have a lot to say and I am confident.
- I'm working like crazy and I love it. I love being on a movie set. I love being on a TV show. I want to do nothing else but act for the rest of my life.
- There is nothing wrong with me dating men, I'm not a home-wrecker, I'm not dating married men, I'm not a glutton for punishment.
- [discussing her turbulent childhood and dealing with dyslexia at a young age] I thought I was stupid. Plus when you're a child and you come from a broken family, you think it's your fault.
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