I became an actor because I couldn't not. Debra Winger More Quotes by Debra Winger More Quotes From Debra Winger A good marriage is different to a happy marriage. Debra Winger good-marriagehappy-marriagedifferent I don't think it is worth trying to look 10 years younger through surgery. Debra Winger tryingyearsthinking I think that we definitely deal with that issue and don't ignore it, the issue of drink, but that's not where it ends. I just think that what the fear is that you think alcoholic writer or whatever and you forget the intelligence that can be present. I mean so many people just write off someone who drinks as one thing. Debra Winger writingmeanthinking Once a Altman's film has been in a town, it kind of wrecks the town. It doesn't even matter what the film is because, suddenly, everybody's hip and stores start doubling prices or whatever. Debra Winger filmkind I remember the old joke, while women are deciding which schools the kids go to, where you're going to live, how the money's going to be spent, and where your health care is coming from, the men are out standing around the barbecue solving all the big world problems. So I think this is a well known fact and we're not breaking any new ground here. Debra Winger menkidsschool Writers often have a 'drunk' that is different than anyone else's. That's why it's so insidious and so damning. First of all, because they can write when they're drinking - or they think they can. A lot of writers will tell me - and this is the latest one I've heard - you drink while you're thinking about what to write, but when you actually write, you sober up. Debra Winger drinkingwritingthinking I was shooting one day and it struck me that I was the age that Shirley MacLaine was when she played my mother. I had to sit down. I had to get a chair, okay? It was a weird moment. Debra Winger one-dayagemother I love telling stories. When people interview me live I'm totally forthcoming about stories like that - as long as it's not going to be in print or recorded. It's just for whoever's in the audience. It's always been for me kind of fun and then everyone walks out of there, "She told this story about da da da" but nobody can prove it. Debra Winger funlongpeople I think it's a great thing that women went out in droves to see Sex and the City movie. I think it's wonderful and I think women have always shown they're looking both to be entertained and challenged in a theatre. I don't think women are afraid of movies that make them think; make them feel sad. The movies that I've been associated with are not exactly Sex and the City but women are leading the way to the theatre on those. They used to call it a date movie where the girl gets to choose. Debra Winger theatregirlthinking You've got the whole civil rights movements emanating from the south, you've got the music that came out of the south that is the core of our current music, so for me that thinking comes out of having Dukes of Hazzard thrown in your face: that the south is a bunch of twangy people that I can't understand. So this is, hopefully, part of the movement to restore the south to its proper and rightful place in our nation... which is huge and pervasive. It's not about Texas - I'm not saying Texas doesn't have it's own unique history - but the south has this at its core. Debra Winger uniquepeoplethinking It's not necessarily that having an affair you get something from the other person that you're not getting from your partner, it's that you created a situation for yourself in which you're unexpressed and so maybe you feel another person allows you to express yourself. Debra Winger express-yourselfaffairsituation Playing big films on festivals is SO misguided. And I know where it comes from: it comes from the head of the festival thinking that he'll play with the big guys, like that's the way to do it and it's SO not the way to do it. It's where Cannes went wrong, it's where Toronto is going wrong. I mean, I got off the plane in Cannes this year and the streets were paved with posters from studio movies. Who cares about that? Why come to Cannes for that? You're going to be able to see all those films anyway - you're not going to be able to avoid them, so I don't get it. Obviously. Debra Winger guymeanthinking But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry. Debra Winger queensworrychildren I just live in the truth and think that every moment counts. Debra Winger just-livemomentsthinking I just want to sleep, and eat, and learn about what's going on in the world. Debra Winger wantsleepworld Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration. Debra Winger bad-actingultimateacting I tend to wear outfits that match the walls. Debra Winger outfitswallfashion People who make lots of money at what they do should just shut up about it. Debra Winger shut-upshouldpeople 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. Debra Winger mirrorshalfhair I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense. Debra Winger laughingmeanpeople
