Debra Winger Quotes
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I push for what I think can be the best, and if I feel they're not going for the best, it kills me.
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Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.
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I tend to wear outfits that match the walls.
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I was the all-American face.
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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.
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In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.
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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?
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If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you want to get a facelift, get a facelift. Don't sit there and talk about why you got it because of the pressure.
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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.
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I don't think it is worth trying to look 10 years younger through surgery.
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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.
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It's such an amazing thing to be loved for who you are.
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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.
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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.
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I think when it comes to Botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices.
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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.
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Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.
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A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.
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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.