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
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 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.
I tend to wear outfits that match the walls.
I do not need a lot of money to be happy.
I think when it comes to Botox and surgery, actresses should do it or not do it, but be honest about their choices.
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'.
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.
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.
Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.
I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense.
Show me the story. I just want to tell a story that pulls me forward.
It's fun to be loose. Just like on stage, all of your great ideas come from looseness.