American - Actress | April 15, 1987 -
We can climb mountains with self-love.
Samira Wiley
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'
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The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
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I never want to pigeonhole myself or get typecast. I'm looking forward to my career and showing all of my range as an actress, and I'm looking at other mediums, too. I'm a theater actress first. And I cannot wait to return to the stage.
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I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.
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When you're in prison, the progress of the outside world doesn't necessarily translate inside prison walls. You don't have any rights; it just doesn't progress along the same timeline.
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I really wanted to work with Kate Mulgurew and Natasha Lyonne.
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I love horror movies.
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I've seen my parents dragged through the mud. But I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.
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I have a responsibility as a potential role model that I take very seriously.
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