Quotes By Debra Winger

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

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

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 became an actor because I couldn't not.

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.

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

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

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?