95 Quotes by Debra Winger

Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you.

The older you get, the more you've done.

Actors always want you to believe something else even though that's the truth and to do that well it's almost a dying art.

"Stand up against the wall!" That's what everybody gets offered, especially women. When women started appearing on TV again in something other than the girl or the mother role it was all, "Get up against the wall," or, "The skin underneath her fingernail would tell me that she," you know, forensic stuff. Oh, God gross. Now, they're hunting terrorists.

I started out in stand-up when I was 18, which is really masochistic, and I did it really till I started going in movies. I did it for about three years out in LA.

I make decisions for my life, not the other way around. Besides, when you have a kid, you must weigh everything against time with your child.

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.

Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.