Best 55 quotes of Debra Winger on MyQuotes

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.

Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.

But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.

Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.

I am lucky enough to be married to a guy who tells me I look beautiful every day.

I am one of the happiest people I know. And that's a weird place to have arrived at from being a depressed Jewish kid.

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.

I don't think it is worth trying to look 10 years younger through surgery.

I don't think that I'm that easy to live with. I have to be reminded that I can have fun. I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.

I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.

I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you.

I have enjoyed a wonderful run in films, so far, and I may, at some point, come back. But it will be in my own time and in my own style.

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

I just live in the truth and think that every moment counts.

I just want to sleep, and eat, and learn about what's going on in the world.

I love telling stories. When people interview me live I'm totally forthcoming about stories like that - as long as it's not going to be in print or recorded. It's just for whoever's in the audience. It's always been for me kind of fun and then everyone walks out of there, "She told this story about da da da" but nobody can prove it.

I make decisions for my life, not the other way around. Besides, when you have a kid, you must weigh everything against time with your child.

I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.

In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.

I remember the old joke, while women are deciding which schools the kids go to, where you're going to live, how the money's going to be spent, and where your health care is coming from, the men are out standing around the barbecue solving all the big world problems. So I think this is a well known fact and we're not breaking any new ground here.

I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense.

I started out in stand-up when I was 18, which is really masochistic, and I did it really till I started going in movies. I did it for about three years out in LA.

I tend to wear outfits that match the walls.

I think it's a great thing that women went out in droves to see Sex and the City movie. I think it's wonderful and I think women have always shown they're looking both to be entertained and challenged in a theatre. I don't think women are afraid of movies that make them think; make them feel sad. The movies that I've been associated with are not exactly Sex and the City but women are leading the way to the theatre on those. They used to call it a date movie where the girl gets to choose.

I think when it comes to Botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices.

It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.

It's fun to be loose. Just like on stage, all of your great ideas come from looseness.

It's inconceivable to some people that that wouldn't be the sexiest thing to do in the whole world: to be a movie star, and make money, and be pampered, and whatever.

It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent.

It's not necessarily that having an affair you get something from the other person that you're not getting from your partner, it's that you created a situation for yourself in which you're unexpressed and so maybe you feel another person allows you to express yourself.

I used to love going on a junket and promoting a film when it was not a 24-hour news cycle, and when there weren't so many media outlets. You could actually talk about the film.

I've been acting all along. I understand that I haven't been in people's viewers, but acting has never not been a part of my life, just more time in between and less high-profile.

I want to start a trend of women as we really look. Some good things, some not so good. I am tired of looking at frozen faces.

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

I was the all-American face. You name it, honey - American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald's, Burger King. The Face That Didn't Matter - that's what I called my face.

I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.

Just because we're on schedule is no reason to shoot bad acting. Someone once said to me, 'You're inconsiderate.' And I said, 'Inconsiderate? Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.' It's a collective slap to a million faces at the same time.

Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.

My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.

Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.

People who make lots of money at what they do should just shut up about it.

Playing big films on festivals is SO misguided. And I know where it comes from: it comes from the head of the festival thinking that he'll play with the big guys, like that's the way to do it and it's SO not the way to do it. It's where Cannes went wrong, it's where Toronto is going wrong. I mean, I got off the plane in Cannes this year and the streets were paved with posters from studio movies. Who cares about that? Why come to Cannes for that? You're going to be able to see all those films anyway - you're not going to be able to avoid them, so I don't get it. Obviously.

Show me the story. I just want to tell a story that pulls me forward.

"Stand up against the wall!" That's what everybody gets offered, especially women. When women started appearing on TV again in something other than the girl or the mother role it was all, "Get up against the wall," or, "The skin underneath her fingernail would tell me that she," you know, forensic stuff. Oh, God gross. Now, they're hunting terrorists.