Ms. Dee Wallace is
an acclaimed actress,
coach, author, lecturer,
talk show host, and
an inspirational healer
of the heart
from the United States.
A tremendously
gifted actress
who has appeared
in over 150 films and
many popular TV shows,
Ms. Wallace is best known
for her role
as the protagonist
Elliott’s mother in
the heartwarming movie
directed by
Mr. Stephen Spielberg,
“E.T. the Extraterrestrial.”
Ms. Dee Wallace,
who has been featured on
The Oprah Winfrey Show,
Good Morning America,
and other
national TV shows,
has been called
“the irreverent healer”
for the fun and
lively energy she brings
as she shows people
how they too can
overcome fears
and live a joyful life.
She is the author
of three uplifting books,
with her newest one
released in 2011 titled,
“Bright Light:
Spiritual Lessons
from a Life in Acting.”
“Bright Light” is a journey
of my entire career,
and I tell some good stories
about all the great directors,
I mean, Blake Edwards,
Steven Spielberg,
Peter Jackson, Joe Dante,
Rob Zombie.
I mean, I've worked with
some really big guys.
And I tell
a lot of my stories,
and through those stories,
is my spiritual journey
of what I had, what I lost,
how I lost it, how
all those quiet little fears
back in Kansas
about being small,
or not deserving,
and how they just weaved
their way through
my career and my life.
And I would learn
and I'd forget,
and I would learn
and I'd forget.
It's everybody's story.
I mean, the response
has been so amazing,
because people write
in every day going,
“Oh, my gosh, Dee,
I picked it up
to read about you, and
to read about your career,
and I found me.”
Born and raised
in a relatively remote
Kansas state, USA,
Dee Wallace was drawn
to performing
at a very young age.
I was dancing and acting
and performing
by the time I was two,
I think.
I was just so naïve,
it never occurred to me
I couldn’t do
what I wanted to do.
So I went off to be a dancer,
and I was a ballet dancer
in the Midwest, big fish
in a very little pond,
and didn’t really have
the [physical] build
to go any further.
So I went, “All right,
I’ll be an actress.
As long as I can create
something, I’m okay.”
In a career that first
took her to New York City
and then to Hollywood,
it was Ms. Wallace’s
innocent faith
in her own destiny
that made things happen.
I went to a party and
some of the biggest agents
were there.
And they said, “You know,
we think you ought to
come by the office
on Monday.”
And I went, “Oh really,
what do you do?”
And they started
sending me out.
And I literally had like
$4.29 left in my account.
And I booked my first
national commercial
for United Airlines.
Would you like to see
what I did? Okay.
That’s it, I was
“the Friendship Girl.”
I turned around and smiled
that Kansas smile
and made US$30,000
that year from it.
Everything just
fell into place,
and I think that happens
when you trust.
And that happens
when you just go,
“Okay, well, so I’m afraid.
I’m going to go do it
anyway.”
Or no, that isn’t fear.
That’s exciting,
I’m just excited,
that’s what it is.
And any actor will tell you
before you walk out
on stage, panic and fear
and excitement,
very much the same
(It’s a rush.) It’s just
a different perspective
that you take on it.
I think when you have
that naïve trust
in the world, you let go.
And when you let go,
all possibilities can come
into your field for you.
And it’s a lesson I have had
to relearn in my life.
Dee Wallace’s life
would be a journey
of overcoming a difficult
family background
that involved alcoholism,
a journey of bringing
love and healing to herself.
As her acting career
took off,
Ms. Dee Wallace
was eventually asked
to co-star in a major
Hollywood movie.
One of the roles
you’re most known for
is the mother on “E.T.,”
which is one of
the all-time greatest films.
[singing “E.T.” theme son]
How did that happen?
I went to audition
for a not-so-well-known
Steven Spielberg film
called “Used Cars,” and
fortunately was not hired
for that one.
But Steven loved
my childlike quality
and he really wanted
everybody in the film
to be as a child,
except for the bad guys.
So when “E.T.” came along,
I just got the offer (Wow.)
for it.
In the time I left Kansas –
and I’d never been
out of Kansas in my life –
and starred in
what was then the biggest
blockbuster of all time,
was a little under five years.
(Wow.) It’s unheard of.
It’s just unheard of.
(That’s amazing.)
And then, and
I again talk about this
in “Bright Light,”
I got there
too fast and too big.
And that subconscious
little Kansas voice went,
“You can’t ever be this big,
Deena.”
Ms. Wallace
then found herself
struggling within.
I was angry,I was a victim.
I was unhappy, and I was
blaming everybody else.
And I fell to my knees
right in there,
and wailing at God
and going, “I don’t want
to be this way anymore.
I don’t want to be angry,
I don’t want to be a victim.
I want my light back.”
Because I could
remember it,##but I just
couldn’t find it again,
and I want a way that
we can heal ourselves.
And the first word
I heard was,
“Use the light within you
to heal E.T.”
Because, of course,
in my perception,
I’d gone like this
and then after “E.T.,”
gone like this.
So I had been
blaming “E.T.” for
whatever reason it was,
because we always want
to blame something
that’s outside of us, right?
I got up and I went,
“I don’t know
what that means,
but I know it’s the truth.”
And, so I thought,
“All right, I have to
get my light back,
so that I can heal.”
It was terribly hard,
but it’s brought me
to all my healing work.
And now
I’m touching people
all over the world
every day.
I really do think I was here
to learn the message
that “E.T.” was all about,
quite frankly, which is,
“You’re the only one that
can take you home.” (Yes.)
And you will
never get home if you
turn your heart line off.
In the greatly acclaimed
film “E.T.” a sweet
extraterrestrial being
gets stranded on Earth
and befriends a lonely
human boy named Elliott.
Elliott and his siblings,
including his younger sister
played by
Drew Barrymore,
try to help E.T.
call home for help,
without getting caught
by their mother,
played by Ms. Wallace.
Everything is brought
into manifestation
as light lowered
into a physical form.
We must
take responsibility for
the direction of our light.
As Ms. Wallace
learned to heal herself
and choose to be
the loving presence she is,
she began to assist others.
Today, her Conscious
Creation Radio Show
and private consultations
have helped
countless people develop
their inner potential
and change their lives
for the better.
I had one of
the largest acting studios
in Los Angeles when
all of this information
started coming in.
I’m sure that the universe
set it up that way,
because I had 80 students
ongoing that could,
and did, help me
develop this work.
I remembered hearing you
speak of a woman,
she wanted
to get beyond something,
and you told her she has to
forgive the person
who did it to her.
This is somebody
came up at a workshop;
I didn't even know her name,
didn't, had never met her.
And she looked at me,
and she said,
"I'll never forgive them."
I mean,
with this vehemence.
And I said,
"But you just said,
'I would do anything
to cure this disease.'"
"Well,
I'll never forgive them."
Well in that moment, we
make our choice, you see.
We take our light,
and we go focus it
toward unforgiveness,
create anger,
create victim-ness.
Instead of, "Oh,
that's all I have to do?
That's all I have to do
to be free?
That's all I have to do
to be well? Wow! You bet.
In this moment right now,
I forgive them."
Most of us just aren't asking.
You know, the “Ask
and you will receive.”
Well, in the original Hebrew,
“ask” is “claim”
or “demand.”
“I demand to know,
and then I receive.”
So, the biggest thing
that I see,
working with people,
is that they don't want
to give up their stories,
because then they don't
have anybody to blame,
and they have nobody
to point the finger at,
and they have to
assume full responsibility
for their lives.
And in that moment,
it's total freedom.
It's interesting how our
upbringing programs us
both in the positive
and the negative.
(Oh, yeah.)
If you didn't know better,
you went to New York,
and you were
in the right place
at the right time
because you didn't know
you couldn't be. (Exactly.)
But at the same time,
your upbringing
all of a sudden told you,
"This is too big for me."
How do we get
beyond the imprinting
we receive as a child?
We’re all born
with bright light,
and then, things happen
in our childhood.
How do we get beyond that?
First of all,
you have to be conscious.
You have to
hold the intention
of wanting to know
all of your limitations,
all your fearful thoughts.
The desire and the intention
has to be there in a seed
before the rest of it
can blossom for you.
But if you are holding
that intention, and saying,
“No matter what I have to
know about me,
no matter what I need
to let go of,
no matter what story
I have to give up,
I'm willing to do that
to be my light again.”
The information
will come to you.
It will be made know to you.
You will hear because
the voice is your voice.
Through an ongoing
busy and fulfilling
acting career, writing,
and giving lectures,
Ms. Wallace constantly
reaches out to others,
inviting them to use their
own inner “light” power
to create the healing
that they wish for
in their lives.
That’s why I love the term
“grace of power.”
It is the grace of knowing
that you’re God, and that
“these things and more
will you do also,”
but you have to
direct the light of you
and hold the belief
that miracles happen now.
Not that they happen later,
not that they happen
by somebody else.
We are the creators
of our own life.
Our grateful appreciation,
Ms. Dee Wallace,
for sharing with us
your insight and wonderful
love-filled energy.
We wish you
the very best in your
inspirational journey
as we each discover
and create our own,
with Divine grace.
May your light
continue to shine
for all the world to see.
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on Ms. Dee Wallace’s
speaking engagements
and books, including
“Bright Light:
Spiritual Lessons
from a Life in Acting,”
please visit
www.IAmDeeWallace.com
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