Winona Ryder Quotes

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

I'm a sponge. I sometimes don't want to go out of my house because it's like, 'Who's going to make me cry today?'

I feel like I am in a box of bees when I am in a room with lots of people and I'm just looking for the door. I find myself getting more and more agoraphobic as time goes on.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.

I have a few celebrity friends, but I'm really not into the whole Hollywood scene. I like to separate myself from my work. It stresses me out if I do too much of the same.

I don't feel safe around a lot of people.

My day is spent hiding from people.

She didn't like to be alone. Even more, she didn't like being with people. (148)

The brief relief of seeing other people when I leave my room turns into a desperate need to be alone, and then being alone turns into a terrible fear that I will have no friends, I will be alone in this world and in my life. I will eventually be so crazy from this black wave, which seems to be taking over my head with increasing frequency, that one day I will just kill myself, not for any great, thoughtful existential reasons, but because I need immediate relief.

Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people, but if you're afraid, you're on your own.

I shouldn't leave the house or interact with people ever.

A couple hundred people around, and I'm shaking.

Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.

I don't really compartmentalize well. I'm in a state of anxiety and panic a lot, but it's for different reasons. It used to be because I had nothing going on, but I work very hard and there doesn't seem to be an end to it.

At some point, you realize that people might be laughing at your jokes because they're afraid not to laugh.

I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

I just don't like to go out and deal with the real world. It's scary.

To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now.

Hurry always empties a soul.

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you’re afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. You shouldn’t be alone. It’s killing you; it’s undermining you. All the time, every day, you should be somewhere with people.

I had a very easy time loving an audience. But when it's one-on-one with somebody, all I wanted to do was run away, because maybe they're going to want something from me I can't give, or they're going to hurt me.

How many people have never raised their hand before?

I go to dance clubs...about once a year just to justify the other 364 days I spend in my apartment going 'God, what idiots!'