And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.
And I'm going to be doing a single - recording a song.
And I'm in an action film distributed through Alliance that's called Friendly Fire.
Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.
I face every project the same way - do it right and give 110%. 100% isn't good enough.
I fit into the quirky, character class type of actor.
I got an early education from television.
I hated stand-up.
I have to approach my life in this way so I can do what I need to do, and do it very well.
I was a shy little girl, nothing like what I am now.
I was asked to write a short film for Carrot Top, and ended up writing a song to be used in the film for a sketch.
I watched TV and collected TV Guides and read Rona Barrett's articles and followed different characters and character actors.
I'm getting work. It's good to work.
I'm in a film called Target starring Stephen Baldwin and James Russo that will go direct to cable before it goes to video.
I'm not the classic type - fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I'm talking about now.
I've got my own future and my own life and it's positive and I feel blessed, so I'm going to do what I need to that's in my best interests.
I've played piano and guitar when I was younger.
If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.
It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity.
Just generation after generation of people singing and performing and all that artistic and creative outflow had to go somewhere.
My driving force is spirituality.
My family is very theatrical.
My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.
People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves.
Singing was the big focus and outlet for me.
So many comics have such low self-esteem.
There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.
This business is all about being seen, and the more people see you the better.
This is first an ego-driven industry, then a money-driven industry. Don't let anybody tell you different.
Voice is my instrument.
Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.
We always performed for our church, but we also just performed whenever the family got together.
What's so interesting is that the Aborigine language is all handed down from generation to generation - it's not a written language.
When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.
Why fight things that are so huge you can't change them no matter what? Why waste that energy? I don't have the time for that.
She attended the New York City High School of the Performing Arts.
Debra will often volunteer as an actress with the Young Storytellers Program.
Debra did her first nude scene in the 2003 film Skin Deep.
Debra has done investigations of the parnormal on the "Queen Mary"
Debra Wilson plays a psychotic mistress in the movie "Skin Deep."
Common sketch partners on MADtv: Nicole Sullivan, Orlando Jones, Phil LaMarr, and Aries Spears.
Plays the Australian Aboriginal instrument, the didgeridoo.
Rumor has it that Debra wants Nothing to do with Mad Tv anymore.
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