Debra Winger

“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.”

“If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.”

“I do not need a lot of money to be happy.”

“I push for what I think can be the best, and if I feel they're not going for the best, it kills me.”

“Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.”

“Ultimately, however, the script an actor enlivens is someone else's words.”

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

“It's inconceivable to some people that that wouldn't be the sexiest thing to do in the whole world: to be a movie star, and make money, and be pampered, and whatever.”

“I have enjoyed a wonderful run in films, so far, and I may, at some point, come back. But it will be in my own time and in my own style.”

“I think when it comes to Botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices.”

“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?”

“My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.”

“I do admit to being challenging, but it's always for the work, it's never personal. I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.”

“I used to love going on a junket and promoting a film when it was not a 24-hour news cycle, and when there weren't so many media outlets. You could actually talk about the film.”

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

“I am one of the happiest people I know. And that's a weird place to have arrived at from being a depressed Jewish kid.”

“But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.”

“I want to start a trend of women as we really look. Some good things, some not so good. I am tired of looking at frozen faces.”

“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.”

“People who make lots of money at what they do should just shut up about it.”