Are You Here To Be In Show Business? 69Debra Wilson Skelton
“It depends on one’s belief system, but I personally think the universe
has a plan for each and every one of us.”Debra Wilson Skelton is best known for her eight seasons on Fox’s late
night sketch comedy series MADtv. Her other television credits include
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Without a Trace, E! and VH1 specials,
as well as various other guest star appearances. Her film work includes
B.A.P.S, Skin Deep, Nine Lives, Scary Movie 4, Super Sweet 16, Gridlock’d,
American History X and Avatar.
Skelton is most proud of her community service work with
elementary schools, at-risk-youth programs, and a number of animal
organizations including Linda Blair’s World Heart Foundation, New Leash
On Life Animal Rescue and Farm Sanctuary. Debra is married to writer/
director Cliff Skelton and lives in Los Angeles.
Who do you think you are?
My purpose is the same as everyone else’s; it’s just that I have asked to
discover what that is. I have taken the journey to discover it and have
come to the understanding that everything around me is a byproduct of
what I am supposed to do in the universe. I think other people allow it to
define them. I think we are here for our healing and for other people’s
healings. We’re here to uplift, support, validate, appreciate, recognize
and continue to move forward to make this planet register on a higher
vibration. Everything we’re given is a circumstance to do that.
Some people get defined by their careers. They’re defined by
how much money they make, the status of their relationships, the car
they drive, the clothes they wear or their jewelry. They’re defined by a
lot of status symbols. But it is the investment in self that doesn’t go
away. All the other things that we are defined by go away. You’re clothes,
your money, your shoes, and your house; when you pass from this planet,
what will people say about you, other than the fact that they liked what
you did as an actor? What will they say of you as a human being? When
you strip the acting away, what you have left is the human.