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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Taste Key Done Good

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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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About Before Crime Current

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I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.

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About Comfort Drop Get

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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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Always Bond Develops Family

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

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Comedy Funny Little Play

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I'll definitely wear orange on the red carpet!

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Carpet Definitely Orange Red

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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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Actor Come Entire Free

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

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Family Full Good Means

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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.

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Confident Dead Fall Happen

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I've heard of nothing coming from nothing, but I've never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.

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Absolutely Absolutely Nothing Coming Hard

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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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Crazy Eyes Funny Funny Thing

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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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Behind Breathing Camera Job

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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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Able Blue Days Get

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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.

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Cast Gotten I Love Love

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I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

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About African America Away

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I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

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Brain Build Character Close

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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

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Came Day Hiding High

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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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Fake Found Need Officially

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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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Arts Encouraged Had Helped

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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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Assimilate Because Children Different

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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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Arts Athletic Because Boston

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

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Color Dream Energies Feel

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I love physicality. I love movement very much.

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I Love Love Movement Much

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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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Family Figure How Integral

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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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Certainly Fan Helped Huge

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

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Building Ensemble I Love Love

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I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

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Activities After-School Any Arts

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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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Am Artist Course Entirely

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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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1960s Am Both Civil

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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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Acting After Because Care

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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

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Broadway Few First Landing

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

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American Experiences Individuals Parents

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"33 Uzo Aduba Quotes & Sayings

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.

Uzo Aduba

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.

Uzo Aduba

I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.

Uzo Aduba

Uzo Aduba

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

Uzo Aduba

Uzo Aduba

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.

Uzo Aduba

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

Uzo Aduba

I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.

Uzo Aduba

I've heard of nothing coming from nothing, but I've never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.

Uzo Aduba

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.

Uzo Aduba

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.

Uzo Aduba

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.

Uzo Aduba

I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.

Uzo Aduba

I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

Uzo Aduba

I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

Uzo Aduba

I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

Uzo Aduba

Uzo Aduba

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.

Uzo Aduba

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.

Uzo Aduba

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.

Uzo Aduba

Uzo Aduba

I love physicality. I love movement very much.

Uzo Aduba

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.

Uzo Aduba

Uzo Aduba

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

Uzo Aduba

I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

Uzo Aduba

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.

Uzo Aduba

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.

Uzo Aduba

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.

Uzo Aduba

The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

Uzo Aduba

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

Uzo Aduba

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