Winger Quotes

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. ~ Debra Winger

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

I settled on a truth today that's always going to be true. I would do anything for my friends, which I think is how everyone in the world feels, which finally makes me understand war. ~ Jeff Winger

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

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 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

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

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

I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style. ~ Kip 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? ~ 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 need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up. ~ Debra Winger

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

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

Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration. ~ Debra Winger

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

You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right. ~ Robert McChesney

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

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

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

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

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

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

The words came together and said how Joey died: alone and scared.
And he never did anything bad to anyone.
Ever. ~ Winger By Andrew Smith

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

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

Most bad behaviour comes from insecurity. ~ 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

Casey Palmer and Nick Matthews killed Joey that night of the dance. They got drunk. They were mad. They beat him until he stopped being Joey. ~ Winger By Andrew Smith

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

I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one. ~ Chester Brown

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. ~ Debra Winger

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'd like to have seen Tony Morley left on as a down-and-out winger. ~ Jimmy Armfield

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

And you can't see around corners. so you just have to deal with it, and try to stay afloat.
And things get tough.
And you're supposed to grow up.
And it's all a bunch of bullshit.
Sorry. ~ Andrew Smith

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

We were lumped into the Lite Metal radio bands. ~ 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

I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music. ~ Kip 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

I was the all-American face. ~ 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

It's such an amazing thing to be loved for who you are. ~ Debra Winger

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

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

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

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

It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right-winger. ~ Robert Winston

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 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

"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

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

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

He was a little guy, a former winger too, and he was a transplant from England who could talk the most civilized-sounding shit you would ever hear, and he could cuss you out with the most vicious obscenities and ~ Andrew Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

CS Lewis may make difficult questions accessible. I don't think he makes answers 'easy. – Debra Winger ~ Greg Cootsona

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

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

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

Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make. ~ Debra Winger

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

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

My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s. ~ Debra 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've studied voice from a few different people for years. ~ Kip 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 would not say he (David Ginola) is the best left-winger in the Premiership, but there are none better. ~ Ron Atkinson

We tune down a full step when we play but I never miss a note. I've learned how to keep my voice. ~ Kip Winger

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

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

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