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 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.
I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense.
I don't think that I'm that easy to live with. I have to be reminded that I can have fun. I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.
Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.
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.
I make decisions for my life, not the other way around. Besides, when you have a kid, you must weigh everything against time with your child.