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I'll definitely wear orange on the red carpet!
Uzo Aduba
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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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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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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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I grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts, and it goes without saying that there weren't many Nigerian families in that town, and a lot of people couldn't say Uzoamaka.
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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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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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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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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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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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