Aduba O Quotes

#1. Faith is a big thing we explore.

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#2. If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.

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#3. My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.

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#4. On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some - you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.

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#5. I dream in color, and I have visions of feelings and energies that I would love to feel.

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#6. Natasha Lyonne is fantastic on Twitter. She posts hilarious pictures. I don't even know where she finds some of them; it'll be like a random picture of a chinchilla kissing a lion or Bill Murray and Jim Belushi out on a boat or something.

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#7. My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.

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#8. I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

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#9. My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.

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#10. If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.

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#11. I left my home in Massachusetts after college to move to New York City to pursue my dreams of acting. I took roles for free. I waited tables. I didn't care because it was work.

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#12. People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.

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#13. I'm realizing, you don't need to change anything about yourself. This is who you are, and it's okay. That's daring.

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#14. I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of the pack. I remember thinking, 'Wow, that is really good. I would love to be a part of that.'

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#15. My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'

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#16. As for the fake teeth, they're officially retired. I haven't really found a need or want to wear them.

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#17. In performance, you don't always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.

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#18. I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.

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#19. I love physicality. I love movement very much.

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#20. It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.

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#21. I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.

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#22. I'll definitely wear orange on the red carpet!

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#23. I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.

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#24. I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.

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#25. I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic scholarship and chose BU because they had both a good track program and an arts program.

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#26. I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

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#27. My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give the character a voice. Those were my only expectations.

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#28. When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.

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#29. I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.

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#30. You think the only thing looking at you is this steel thing, but behind the camera is this living, breathing person operating the camera whose job it is to watch you.

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