Debra Winger Quotes
-
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.
-
People who make lots of money at what they do should just shut up about it.
-
I am lucky enough to be married to a guy who tells me I look beautiful every day.
-
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 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 hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.
-
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.
-
But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.
-
I do not need a lot of money to be happy.
-
Most bad behaviour comes from insecurity.
-
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.
-
There's a small club of women who are willing to age.
-
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.
-
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 need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.
-
My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.
-
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'.
-
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.
-
Ultimately, however, the script an actor enlivens is someone else's words.
-
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 will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.
-
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 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.