Debra Winger

Debra Winger is an American actress. She is best known for roles in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Terms of Endearment (1983), and Shadow lands (1993), all of which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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 (1993).

Her other film roles include Urban Cowboy (1980), Legal Eagles (1986), Black Widow (1987), Betrayed (1988), Forget Paris (1995), and Rachel Getting Married (2008). In 2012, she made her Broadway debut in the original production of the David Mamet play The Anarchist.

Date of birth:
16th May, 1955
"I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up."
― Debra Winger
Topic(s): Family
"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
Topic(s): Age
"I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam."
― Debra Winger
Topic(s): Age
"If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down."
― Debra Winger
Topic(s): Patience
"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
Topic(s): Work
"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
Topic(s): Age
"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
Topic(s): Business
"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."
― Debra Winger
Topic(s): Family
"A good marriage is different to a happy marriage."
― Debra Winger
Topic(s): Marriage
"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
Topic(s): Age

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