Back then, you used to lock people up and throw away the key if they just felt sensitive, or if they rebelled in any way.
Break-ups are hard for anybody, but it's particularly tough when it's being documented and you see the person's picture everywhere. Most people don't have that added problem when they break up with someone.
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.
I don't believe I am influencing anybody but myself.
I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all.
I feel my best when I'm happy.
I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.
I love good family films. I think in the context of Sept. 11 it's important that these kinds of movies are made and reach an audience.
I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.
I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.
I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.
I welcome turning 30 because I like approaching the beginning of something instead of the end. I'm at a really good place and feel grounded.
I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.
I'm not into wrinkles.
I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.
I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.
I've learned that it's OK to be flawed.
If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.
It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.
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.
It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.
It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.
It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think?
Money doesn't matter on a deeply personal level. It doesn't make you feel any happier. But of course I am very aware that I don't have to worry about earning a living or about those very important practical things that most people have to worry about on a very real level.
My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends.
People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.
Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life.
So remaking a movie like Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a really positive statement and I'm so happy I made it in light of what happened after we made it.
That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.
There is so much ugliness in the world that we shouldn't be afraid to make films which speak about basic virtues and principles of goodness. There is so much violence and unhappiness that gets thrown at us every day in the news that it has to have some kind of negative affect on people.
There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.
When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.
You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.
You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.
You try to get out there and live. I've always had good friends who've been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I've never felt attached to the film industry.
You've got to grow up sometime.
Her nickname is Noni.
Winona has suffered from aquaphobia (fear of deep water) since the age of twelve, when she nearly drowned. So she had trouble with the underwater scenes in Alien: Resurrection (1997).
She has said that she was inspired to be an actress by the performance of Sarah Miles in the movie Ryan's Daughter (1970).
Winona has said her favorite book is J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.
Winona's sister Sunyata Palmer has worked as a makeup artist, while her brother Uri Horowitz came in as a production assistant on Winona's movie Reality Bites (1994).
The first house Winona ever bought was in the Hollywood Hills. However, she only stayed a few months, explaining that she didn't fit in there at all.
In writing the movie Night on Earth (1991), Jim Jarmusch created the part of Corky (a tattooed, chain-smoking taxi-driver who wants to be a mechanic) with Winona in mind. She later agreed to play the part.
Winona graduated from Petaluma High School, near San Francisco, CA, with a GPA of 4.0.
Winona is the god-daughter of the late Dr Timothy Leary, a writer and psychologist who promoted the use of LSD. He founded the League for Spiritual Discovery, a religion with LSD as its sacrament, and later coined the phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out". Imprisoned for possessing marijuana, he broke jail and fled from the US to Algeria and later Switzerland. While he was on the run, President Richard M. Nixon called Leary "the most dangerous man in America".
Winona appeared on the cover of 'W' magazine for June 2002 wearing a 'Free Winona' T-shirt. Many fans took to wearing T-shirts with the same slogan.
Winona really has fair hair, but when she made the film Lucas (1986) her hair was dyed black and it has stayed that way ever since.
In the movie Mr Deeds (2002), Winona had to ride a bike down a flight of stairs. She fell and broke her arm.
Winona Ryder's real name is Horowitz. She is said to have got the name Ryder from a Mitch Ryder album.
Winona's Agent is Endeavor Talent Agency LLC, 9701 Wilshire Blvd., 10th Floor, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 USA.
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