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.

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

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

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.

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 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

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

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.

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

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

Uzo Aduba

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

Uzo Aduba

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

Uzo Aduba

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

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

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

I love De la Renta. I love CoSTUME National; I think they're just incredible. And I love Marc Jacobs, too - they're also great, just a great brand.

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

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

Uzo Aduba

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.

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