Quotes By Debra Winger

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

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.

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

I never thought I would start working again, and I did, but it was really hard, and I don't know that I would advise anyone to step back the way I did.

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

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

Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.

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.

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

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

When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

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

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.

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

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'.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

I push for what I think can be the best, and if I feel they're not going for the best, it kills me.

I think it's a little irresponsible for women who choose surgery to then say they can portray the average woman on the street, because if the average woman can't afford those treatments, then she's going to say, 'I'm 53 and I don't look like that,' and start thinking she's ugly or inadequate.

I became an actor because I couldn't not.

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

Ultimately, however, the script an actor enlivens is someone else's words.

I do admit to being challenging, but it's always for the work, it's never personal. I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.