| • | "she's a sex symbol without the usual glamorous trappings of the part, as life-size as the girl next door if the girl next door happens to be a Marlboro-smoking Jewish wildcat", Newsweek, Nov. 21, '83 | |
| • | "Debra Winger is pondering life. Her left arm is raised to eye level, the elbow perched on the opposite wrist, and her cigarette slants upwards as it rests between her fingers", Associated Press, Dec. 30, '90 | |
| • | "she roared into the Hollywood fastlane, chainsmoking 80 cigarettes a day", The Mirror (UK), Apr. 9, '93 | |
| • | quit - "Now she has all but given up smoking, barly drinks", "One day I lit u p a cigarette, stared at it, stubbed it out and threw the pack away. I can't say I wont smoke tomorrow, or won't resume my old habits", The Mirror (UK), Apr. 9, '93 | |
| • | "she smokes", Ottawa Citizen, Sep. 12, '93 | |
| • | "She doesn't smoke, yet lights up a cigarette declaring it's the only one she'll smoke and that Noah doesn't know she smokes so please don't write that she's smoking. She tells W she smokes two cigarettes a day", USA Today, Dec. 15, '93 |