Winona Ryder Quotes

Unless you burst into movies as a sex goddess, you're likely to play wives and mothers. I came into movies as a teenager in 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They' (1969) playing a pregnant waif from the Ozarks. I didn't get a chance to burst into movies in 'Body Heat.' My career isn't based on having a 23-inch waist and a big bust, though I do.

Growing up, I never felt like the pretty girl.

You got to be pretty thin to be in the movies, or it helps. I would actually love to do it.

People figure because I'm blonde and was a model, I just waltzed into Los Angeles and got major roles in major films.

For a while, I was only being sent fat-girl parts. Seriously? Sometimes I feel like I'm making some kind of radical statement because I'm a size 6.

For a long time, I did feel aware that I wasn't pretty or bubbly enough. Nor was I sexy-looking.

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.

But I've lost parts because of my looks. I auditioned to star with Richard Dreyfuss in 'The Buddy System.' The producers said no one would believe he would leave me for another woman. They just couldn't see me with him.

I went through awkward, chubby, total weirdo phases.

I've never been a great enthusiast about how I look and I am very... when I was young I had a real anti-talent for inventing myself as unappealing - craven and unremarkable.

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy.

I've never been the sexy or the cute girl.

L.A. makes you feel ugly.

Whatever its origin, I'd like to see a cure for the Incredibly Shrinking Actress phenomena.

I wasn't the prettiest girl in class. No breasts, short legs, gangly teeth. I didn't think I was model material, that's for sure.

I could never understand, when I watch romantic comedies, the notion that for some reason, unattractive or heavy people don't fall in love. If they do, it's in some odd, kooky, roundabout way - and it's not. It's exactly the same.

A real man doesn't know what cellulite is. Until I was 30 I thought cellulite was a building material used for restoring plasterwork in stately homes.

There is nothing worse than bright lighting - it isn't flattering and makes the glamorous women want to leave.

In South, the actresses are expected to be fuller, unlike Bollywood. The sensibilities are totally different.

After 'Champion,' I got like 20,000 psychopath roles! And they wanted me to strip and show my body in every film. But I have tried to balance my roles.

After the release of movies like 'Chidambarathil Oru Appasamy' and 'Amirtham,' I was branded as an actress who can do only homely roles.

People would say that I looked good on screen but they could not cast me as I was bit overweight. It was never an issue in Malayalam films. Now, that I have lost some weight, they ask me if there is something wrong with me? It is just a matter of perception.

Everyone says I was real cute as a kid, but from 8 to 19, I was horrible-looking, freaky.

I grew up believing I was just an ugly girl.