Winona Ryder movie quotes

“- Will Keane: You think I'm too old for you?
- Charlotte Fielding: Oh, no… I collect antiques, or I aspire to.”
Richard Tiffany Gere - Will Keane
Winona Ryder - Charlotte Fielding

- Lelaina Pierce: Can you define "irony"?
- Troy Dyer: It's when the actual meaning is the complete opposite from the literal meaning.
Winona Ryder - Lelaina Pierce
Ethan Hawke - Troy Dyer

“- Delia: Open this door, you dead people, or we'll bust it down and we'll drag you out by the ropes you hang yourselves with!
- Lydia: Shh! They didn't commit suicide.
- Delia: It doesn't matter. Lydia, I have a chance to teach you something here: you have got to take the upper hand in all situations or people, whether they're dead or alive,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Catherine O'Hara - Delia
Winona Ryder - Lydia

“- Dinky Bossetti: Who understands anyone these days... who wants to?
- Gerald Howells: Gosh, I want to kiss you so bad, Dinky.
- Dinky Bossetti: It's good to want things.”
Winona Ryder - Dinky Bossetti
Thomas Wilson Brown - Gerald Howells

“- Mina Murray: How did Lucy die? Was she in great pain?
- Professor Abraham Van Helsing: Yeah, she was in great pain! Then we cut off her head, and drove a stake through her heart, and burned it, and then she found peace.”
Winona Ryder - Mina Murray
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Abraham Van Helsing

“- J.D.: Is your life perfect?
- Veronica: I'm on my way to a party at Remington University... No, my life's not perfect. I don't really like my friends.”
Christian Slater - J.D.
Winona Ryder - Veronica

“- Lelaina Pierce: Quick, Vicky, whats your social security?
- Vickie Miner: Uhm... 851-25-9357.
- Troy Dyer: Very impressive.
- Vickie Miner: Thats the only thing I really learned in college.”
Winona Ryder - Lelaina Pierce
Janeane Garofalo - Vickie Miner
Ethan Hawke - Troy Dyer

“- J.D.: There are no stupid questions.
- Veronica: You inherit 5 million dollars the same day aliens land on the earth and say they're going to blow it up in 2 days. What do you do?
- J.D.: That's the stupidest question I've ever heard.”
Christian Slater - J.D.
Winona Ryder - Veronica

“- Judge Thomas Danforth: Can you make out who she may be?
- Abigail Williams: I believe she be Reverend John Hale's wife sir.
- Judge Thomas Danforth: You must be mistaken my child. The wife of a minister be unlikely...
- Abigail Williams: Satan may reach anyone sir.
- Judge Sewall: Absolutely no one in the world is safe? Is that your meaning?”

Paul Scofield - Judge Thomas Danforth
Winona Ryder - Abigail Williams
George Gaynes - Judge Samuel Sewall

“Sometimes love simply dies.”
Winona Ryder - Finn

“Please God don't let me fall in love and want to do disgusting things... Dear God, I love the way he throws.”
Winona Ryder - Charlotte Flax

“- John Baker Jr: Will you marry me?
- Patty Vare: What?
- John Baker Jr: I know that sounds ridiculous to you, but I'm do it. I would I do anything for you...”
Lukas Haas - John Baker Jr
Winona Ryder - Patty Vare

“- Lelaina Pierce: I'd like to somehow make a difference in people's lives.
- Troy Dyer: And I... I would like to buy them all a Coke.
- Lelaina Pierce: And you wonder why we never got involved?”
Winona Ryder - Lelaina Pierce
Ethan Hawke - Troy Dyer

“I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country.”
Winona Ryder - Jo March

- Heather McNamara: Suicide is a private thing.
- Veronica: You're throwing your life away to become a statistic on "U. S. fucking A. Today"; that's about the least private thing I can think of.
Lisanne Falk - Heather McNamara
Winona Ryder - Veronica

“- Call: It's beautiful.
- Ripley: Yeah.
- Call: I didn't expect it to be. What happens now?
- Ripley: I don't know. I'm a stranger here myself.”

Sigourney Weaver - Ripley
Winona Ryder - Call

“Lucy is a pure and virtuous girl. But, I admit that her free way of speaking shocks me sometimes. Jonathan says it is a defect of the aristocracy that they say what they please. The truth is that I admire Lucy, and I'm not surprised that men flock around her. I wish I were as pretty and as adored as she.”
Winona Ryder - Mina Murray

“Satan may reach anyone.”
Winona Ryder - Abigail Williams

“- Veronica: That knife is filthy.
- J.D.: What do you think I'm going to do with it, take out her tonsils?
- Veronica: Excuse me, I think I know Heather a little bit better than you do. If she were going to slit her wrists, the knife would be spotless.”
Winona Ryder - Veronica
Christian Slater - J.D.

“- John Baker Jr: You make everything look so different to me Patty...
- Patty Vare: Like what?
- John Baker Jr: Like everything... everything else just seems pointless comparing to being with you, like... what am I doing in school? I don't know...”
Lukas Haas - John Baker Jr
Winona Ryder - Patty Vare

“- Ripley: Why do you care what happens to them?
- Call: Because I'm programmed to.
- Ripley: You're programmed to be an asshole? You're the new asshole model they're putting out?”
Sigourney Weaver - Ripley
Winona Ryder - Call

“- Veronica: If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?
- Heather McNamara: Probably.”
Winona Ryder - Veronica
Lisanne Falk - Heather McNamara

“- Lucas: Dragonfly Nymph. You ever see one?
- Rina: Oh, it's ugly. Glad it's not bigger than me.
- Lucas: It turns into something very beautiful, Rina.
- Rina: Is that possible?
- Lucas: Yeah, can you imagine that? Turning from something ugly into something beautiful.”

Corey Haim - Lucas
Winona Ryder - Rina

“- Kim: He's dead. The roof caved in on them. They killed each other. You can see for yourselves. See [holds up a fake scissor hand]?
- Helen: [leaves with the others, sadly] I'm going home.”

Winona Ryder - Kim
Conchata Ferrell - Helen

“I'm going to hell for sure. Here he is, talking about his poor dead mother and I can't help wishing his hands were unbuttoning my dress!”
Winona Ryder - Charlotte Flax