Quotes By Debra Winger

I tend to wear outfits that match the walls.

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

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

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.

Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.

You see people on TV flying in to places just to pick up a baby, or brush some flies away. That's great if they can bring that issue to public attention. But that's not what I wanted to do. I was interested in committing to something that I could function in whether I was Debra Winger or not. Because nobody might care about that next week.

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'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.

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

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

I never lost my interest in acting but I did lose my interest in the business and what I had to go through to make a film. I felt saturated, you know, like a sponge when it's saturated - it's not good.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.