Top 25 Debra Winger Quotes

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

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.

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.

Most bad behaviour comes from insecurity.

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.

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 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.

Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.

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.

I always loved working as an actress, but I didn’t understand why I couldn’t just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Ultimately, however, the script an actor enlivens is someone else‘s words.

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

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

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

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’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.

I was the all-American face.