Debra Winger Quotes

Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.

It's such an amazing thing to be loved for who you are.

When you connect with a cause, it's like falling in love.

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

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.

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

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

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

The older you get, the more you've done.

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

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

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.

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

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

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'.

There's a small club of women who are willing to age.

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

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

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

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.

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 became an actor because I couldn't not.

Actors always want you to believe something else even though that's the truth and to do that well it's almost a dying art.

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

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.

Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.

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

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

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

I tend to wear outfits that match the walls.

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.

I was shooting one day and it struck me that I was the age that Shirley MacLaine was when she played my mother. I had to sit down. I had to get a chair, okay? It was a weird moment.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Once a Altman's film has been in a town, it kind of wrecks the town. It doesn't even matter what the film is because, suddenly, everybody's hip and stores start doubling prices or whatever.

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.

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

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