“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.” ThinkingWayNeedsI CanFunEasyNiceMy FamilyHaving Fun Author:Debra Winger
“I just live in the truth and think that every moment counts.” ThinkingMomentsJust Live Author:Debra Winger
“Theater is all about the rehearsal process. In fact, I think a lot of times opening night there's a mixed sadness because you're finished with a lot of people's favorite part of the process, which is finding the character and discovering it, and then you get to live it.” PeopleThinkingCharacterFactsNightProcessSadnessFindingsTheaterFinishedOpeningDiscoveringRehearsalOpening Night Author:Debra Winger
“The minute we have a pain, we want a diagnosis. So I think the minute we feel love, it's very hard to just let it be. We want to identify it, we want to catalog it, we want to keep the thing and create the environment it happened in. That's where marriage comes from! Let's make an institution out of it!” ThinkingPainEnvironment Author:Debra Winger
“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.” ThinkingGirlWonderfulTheatreGreat Things Author:Debra Winger
“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.” ThinkingMenWorldProblemCareKidsSchoolRememberHe ManJokesHealth CareWell Known Author:Debra Winger
“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.” ThinkingWritingDifferentDrinkDrinkingSober Author:Debra Winger
“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.” ThinkingMeanCareFilmGuyPosters Author:Debra Winger
“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.” PeopleThinkingUniqueCivil RightsHopefullyYour FaceCivil Rights Movement Author:Debra Winger
“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.” PeopleThinkingWritingMeanForgetDrink Author:Debra Winger
“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.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantLifeKindFunnyLife IsArmsDistanceBad ThingsLife Is ShortHeartedTactFaint Hearted Author:Debra Winger
“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.” IfsThinkingMadeStillsMovingReadingDecisionEasierHarderScriptsInsightfulBack WhenWrong Decision Author:Debra Winger
“I don't think it is worth trying to look 10 years younger through surgery.” ThinkingTryingYearsLooksSurgery Author:Debra Winger
“I think when it comes to Botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices.” ThinkingShouldChoicesHonestActressesBeing HonestSurgeryBotox Author:Debra Winger
“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?” ThinkingYearsRealChoicesCoursesExperienceFadesFlavorAfraid Of FailureClose To Death Author:Debra Winger
“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.” PeopleThinkingPlayAgeBeautifulMy OwnPayLooking Beautiful Author:Debra Winger
“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.” ThinkingCan DoFameActressesI RealizedBeing Famous Author:Debra Winger
