Winona Ryder Quotes

I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.

I dreamed of doing stuff like Will Smith and films on a big scale.

I'm not in Hollywood because I'm good at math.

No star is bigger than the success of a film.

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.

It's bizarre, that feeling as an actor, at being in the mecca of the film world and seeing billboards for a TV show that you're in pretty much everywhere.

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

To this day, I don't know what shapes a Hollywood career.

I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis.

Being a big star and being known, making movies and a lot of money - that really doesn't interest me.

Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.

I had a growing career as a model and an actress in London - I had starred opposite Michael Caine and Sidney Poitier in 'The Wilby Conspiracy' - but everyone told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place, they said, and I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

If you can figure out my success on the screen, you're a better man than I.

When you're a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel, and a lot of being away, which is impractical because I have four children, so I don't want to be away that much, not the other side of the world away.

I'd never really considered film. If I'd thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.

I always say: you're not going to find Hollywood. Hollywood will find you! But I'm ready for it: for Hollywood, for Bollywood, for everything!

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

I guess in the independent market, I'd be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don't think my name is that well-known, I don't have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.

I never did love Hollywood, I just loved the work.

Lana Turner was adorable and funny. Jimmy Stewart was such a nice person. I quickly realized that if you're not a nice person, you're not going to last in this business. I mean, once your box office starts to drop off, like Veronica Lake, they'll get rid of you fast.

I always wanted to be in movies.

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.