Latest Debra Winger Quotes from Interviews

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• 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

  Unique, Thinking, People

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

• 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

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

• 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

  Mean, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

• 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

  Kind, Film

• 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

  Drinking, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

• I guess what I have to say is, "Don't do it." I don't recommend it, because, having said that, the people that should do it will do it anyway, despite the fact that I've said not to do it. Only the ones who've said, "Oh, she said not to do it," aren't going to do it, and they shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

  Debra Winger

  People

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

• 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

  Fun, Long, People

  Source: www.knightatthemovies.com

• 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

  Mother, Age, One Day

  Source: www.knightatthemovies.com

• 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

  Girl, Thinking, Theatre

  Source: www.knightatthemovies.com

• 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

  School, Kids, Men

  Source: www.knightatthemovies.com

• 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

  Affair, Express Yourself, Situation

  Source: www.salon.com

• 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!

  Debra Winger

  Pain, Thinking, Environment

  Source: www.salon.com

• 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.

  Debra Winger

  Art, Believe, Dying

  Source: www.hitfix.com

• 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.

  Debra Winger

  Years, Three, Three Years

  "Why are Debra Winger and Sam Elliott doing a multi-cam sitcom for Netflix?". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. March 30, 2016.

• "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.

  Debra Winger

  Girl, Mother, Wall

  Source: www.hitfix.com

• It's fun to be loose. Just like on stage, all of your great ideas come from looseness.

  Debra Winger

  Fun, Ideas, Stage

  Source: www.hitfix.com

• 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

  Mean, People, Laughing

  Source: www.hitfix.com

• 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.

  Debra Winger

  Character, Sadness, Night

  "Why are Debra Winger and Sam Elliott doing a multi-cam sitcom for Netflix?". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. March 30, 2016.

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

  Debra Winger

  Done

  "Why are Debra Winger and Sam Elliott doing a multi-cam sitcom for Netflix?". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. March 30, 2016.