Winger Quotes & Sayings

All of my favorite actresses are comedians at heart: Shirley MacLaine and Madeline Kahn, Diane Keaton and Debra Winger. And they are all amazing dramatic actresses, but everything they do is funny. — Casey Wilson

Still, even after the black winger John Barnes scored his solo goal to beat Brazil in Rio in 1984, the Football Association's chairman was harangued by England fans on the flight back home: "You fucking wanker, you prefer sambos to us. — Simon Kuper

It's a little bit more like I want to give this to the people that are really into it first - I don't have a lot of desire to be like Bon Jovi or something like that, I really want to concentrate on the music. — Kip Winger

I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies. — Debra Winger

I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening. — Debra Winger

(T)he Left has moved so far to the left that this pro-choice, lesbian feminist is now considered a Right-Winger! — Tammy Bruce

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. — Debra Winger

I never thought I would start working again, and I did, but it was really hard, and I don't know that I would advise anyone to step back the way I did. — Debra Winger

I think it's important to know your limitations too. — Kip Winger

I remember seeing Extreme play with [Debra] Winger and Cinderella. Gary Cherone was wearing purple velvet overalls with no shirt and saddle oxfords.Afterward, I went home and told my mom, "I need to find saddle oxfords." And she said, "Like little girls wear?" Naturally, I couldn't find them in my size, so I went to a shoemaker and had him make me a pair. I wore them for a while, but they didn't seem as cool on me, because when your foot is size 12, they sort of look like clown shoes. — Patrick Wilson

I think people assumed because of my last name that I was a real right-winger. And if you cared to look at my writing, you would be hard pressed to deduce that I'm an ideological right-winger. — Christopher Buckley

The thing is, playing with us, whoever was the left winger had to come to play every night because that's the way it was. Charlie came in and he just fit that role - big and strong around the net. — Marcel Dionne

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'. — Debra Winger

I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger. — Karel Reisz

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

after midnight
Just words.
No more pictures. No charts or plays or poems.
Now it's just about the words. — Andrew Smith

I was the all-American face. You name it, honey - American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald's, Burger King. The Face That Didn't Matter - that's what I called my face. — Debra Winger

In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb. — 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. — Debra Winger

I daydream - and get paid for it. I recall a scene from An Officer and a Gentleman. At the end of the movie Richard Gere, dressed in his naval whites, goes into a factory, picks up Debra Winger, and carries her out of that depressing place with all of those dirty machines.
I wish that would happen to me. Of course the whole time I'd be worried that the guy was trying to guess my weight or something. I realize how truly pathetic I am. Some guy in a uniform drags his woman out of the workplace to stick her in a house to cook and possibly even clip coupons, and I am staring to buy into it, into the anti-female propaganda disguised as romance. As soon as he picks her up, things have to head south from there, because at some point, he has to put her down. — Jill A. Davis

Each team has a net liner, a goalie, and five attackers. We have two defenders on the ice and three forwards. Our forwards are left winger, centre man and a right winger. We work as units of five. In ice hockey you go out and you go as hard as you can for 35 to 45 seconds, then we change. — Gerad Adams

What's your favourite position?"
"I usually play winger."
"Zach, I adore you, but you can't make soccer jokes during phone sex. It just isn't done. — Tiffany Reisz

I'd like to tour, but again, to tour my music now would take a bigger band. — Kip Winger

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. — Debra Winger

Most bad behavior comes from insecurity. — Debra Winger

The hard left is a very small section of the British population and I myself am not hard left. I am a traditional Labour left-winger. — George Galloway

They call me a right-winger, which is an insult - I'm simply a racist and a separatist. — Tom Metzger

I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that. — Kip Winger

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great! — Kip Winger

It's like, on my solo stuff, every single person who buys the record, gets it. On the other stuff, the masses ... when you have a hit on the radio, not everyone's going to get it. They are going to buy it for the hit. — Kip Winger

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

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage. — Debra Winger

I am lucky enough to be married to a guy who tells me I look beautiful every day. — Debra Winger

Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that. — Zooey Deschanel

Pull up a step, Ace," I told him. He did, but he had the fidgets. He kept looking for his lucky exit. I told him, "I didn't really want you. But I can't get ahold of Winger." Not that I'd tried. "What? Who?" "Your girlfriend. Big blond goof with no common sense, always has an angle, never tells the truth if a lie will do. Her." "Part of that fits everybody in this thing," Morley said. "Even up on the Hill, they turned the truth to quicksilver." "Untruths, too." "Quicksilver lies. I like that." "Deadly quicksilver lies." I spotted friend C.J. Carlyle. "Look who missed the slaughter at Maggie Jenn's place. — Glen Cook

I've been acting all along. I understand that I haven't been in people's viewers, but acting has never not been a part of my life, just more time in between and less high-profile. — Debra Winger

Sometimes friends grow apart. You tell each other everything and you're sure this is a person you'll know the rest of your life but then she stops writing or calling, or you realize she's really not so nice, or she turns into a right-winger. — Anita Diamant

Forget that I'm a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege - I had precious little privilege in my early years. — Margaret Thatcher

If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We've seen so many great actresses go down to the Big C: Ali MacGraw, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Debra Winger, Susan Sarandon. — Geraldine Brooks

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. — Debra Winger

There's a small club of women who are willing to age. — Debra Winger

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

You know, nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was. Things just expand and contract. Like the universe, like breathing. But you'll never fill your lungs up with the same air twice. Sometimes, it would be cool if you could pause and rewind and do over. But I think anyone would get tired of that after one or two times. — Andrew Smith

When you connect with a cause, it's like falling in love. — Debra Winger

Just because we're on schedule is no reason to shoot bad acting. Someone once said to me, 'You're inconsiderate.' And I said, 'Inconsiderate? Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.' It's a collective slap to a million faces at the same time. — Debra Winger

I was a right winger into the 70's but I left the right in late 70's. — Tom Metzger

I just want to sleep, and eat, and learn about what's going on in the world. — Debra Winger

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate. — Debra Winger

I was the all-American face. — Debra Winger

As an actress, I really love people like Anna Magnani and Debra Winger. I also think there is nobody better than Meryl Streep. — Penelope Cruz

Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be. — Tom Berenger

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? — Debra Winger

Wind-voice looked in amazement at the sword in his claws. "I - I'll keep it safe," he muttered to Winger. "For the hero, when he comes ... "
Winger was smiling a light, dreamy smile that radiated all over his thin face. "The hero is here, Wind-voice," he said, awed. "You're the hero. — Nancy Yi Fan

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger. — Helen Mirren

We were lumped into the Lite Metal radio bands. — Kip Winger

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. — 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. — Debra Winger

The sexiest thing in the world is to be totally naked with your wedding band on. — Debra Winger

I've studied voice from a few different people for years. — Kip Winger

The main thing is that I've been studying composition for the last four years. I'd say it's the life experience combined with the lessons that enabled me to go much further. — Kip Winger

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life. — Kip Winger

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam. — Debra Winger

As a musician, basically the masses never thought I was a musician. — Kip Winger

It's easier to change directions while you're still moving. — Debra Winger

God would have to beam into me what I was doing and what the album actually sounded like because usually when I start a project like that, I already know what the album sounds like before I start it. — Kip Winger

I reject that. I would rather recruit a Racist left winger than a right winger. — Tom Metzger

When he's on fire, he is impossible to stop. He dribbles like a winger, but is still able to score 20 goals a year in the Premiership.
(on Thierry Henry) — Fabio Capello

If you want to get a facelift, get a facelift. Don't sit there and talk about why you got it because of the pressure. — Debra Winger

He had always beaten me. It feels good to get a little revenge. I knew I just had to keep pushing, and it just feels great to be on top. — Richard Winger

So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote. — Robert Scheer

The songs were really complicated. I used to meet people in bar bands who were trying to play our songs and they were really struggling with it. Technically it was really difficult stuff. — Kip Winger

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems. — Pope Francis

I tend to wear outfits that match the walls. — Debra Winger

I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing. — Kip Winger

I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up. — Debra Winger

Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery and Robert Redford, Mel Gibson - at least in the Road Warrior films - and Harrison Ford are among my favorite actors. Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Deborah Winger, Jessica Lange, and of course, Shirley MacLaine, are among the women. — Frederick Lenz

I'm completely obsessed with Andrew Smith's 'Winger.' A great, hilarious, and moving story. — John Corey Whaley

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

To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it. — Kip Winger

I said a silent prayer. Actually, silent is probably the only type of prayer a guy should attempt when his head's in a toilet. — Andrew Smith

I became an actor because I couldn't not. — Debra Winger

"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

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

Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head. — Kip 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. — Debra Winger

Already, in the last few decades, you have realized the utter futility of of encumbering yourselves with superfluous possessions that have no useful virtue, but which, for various sentimental reasons, you continue to hoard, thus lessening your life's efficiency by using for it time and attention that should have been applied to the practical work of life's accomplishments. (The Miracle of the Lily - 1928) — Clare Winger Harris

I think it's a little irresponsible for women who choose surgery to then say they can portray the average woman on the street, because if the average woman can't afford those treatments, then she's going to say, 'I'm 53 and I don't look like that,' and start thinking she's ugly or inadequate. — Debra Winger

It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent. — Debra Winger

In general, I don't feel artists should need producers. — Kip Winger

Ultimately, however, the script an actor enlivens is someone else's words. — Debra Winger

A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself. — Kip Winger

The winger resembles Mother Brown, running with a high knee-lift and sometimes not progressing far from the spot where he started. — Simon Geoghegan

I would not say he (David Ginola) is the best left-winger in the Premiership, but there are none better. — Ron Atkinson

People who make lots of money at what they do should just shut up about it. — Debra Winger

I don't think it is worth trying to look 10 years younger through surgery. — Debra Winger

I do not need a lot of money to be happy. — Debra Winger

You see people on TV flying in to places just to pick up a baby, or brush some flies away. That's great if they can bring that issue to public attention. But that's not what I wanted to do. I was interested in committing to something that I could function in whether I was Debra Winger or not. Because nobody might care about that next week. — Debra Winger

If I had been a winger, I might have been daydreaming and thinking about how to keep my kit clean for next week. — Bill Beaumont

Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration. — Debra Winger

I never lost my interest in acting but I did lose my interest in the business and what I had to go through to make a film. I felt saturated, you know, like a sponge when it's saturated - it's not good. — Debra Winger