Debra Winger

Actress

1955-05-16

Quotes by Debra Winger

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

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

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• There's a small club of women who are willing to age.

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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 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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• Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

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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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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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