Debra Winger
Debra Winger
Debra Lynn Wingeris an American actress. She has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress; for An Officer and a Gentleman, Terms of Endearment, and Shadowlands. She won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for Terms of Endearment, and the Tokyo International Film Festival Award for Best Actress for A Dangerous Woman. Her other film roles include Urban Cowboy, Legal Eagles, Black Widow, Betrayed, Forget Paris, and Rachel Getting Married. In 2012,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth16 May 1955
CityCleveland Heights, OH
CountryUnited States of America
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.
It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.
In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.
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.
I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
It's such an amazing thing to be loved for who you are.
Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.
When you connect with a cause, it's like falling in love.
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.
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.