Quotes By Debra Winger

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?

Most bad behaviour comes from insecurity.

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.

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.

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

I think when it comes to Botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices.

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.