Yvonne Orji Quotes

Yvonne Orji

Profession : Actress

Birth : December 2, 1983

A healthy smile has always been important to me.

Yvonne Orji

A lot of people have done things in the name of Christianity and religion and faith in a not-so-nice way.

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You turn 'Insecure' on, and you see a sea of brown. You see at the core of it a strong friendship between two brown-skinned girls.

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I was so focused on advancing in my career that I didn't have enough emotional capacity for dating.

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I can only see what's in front of me, but God can see what's behind, what's ahead of me, what's beside me, and it just makes it so much easier to release control, cuz at the end of the day, if He brought me to it, He's gonna have to bring me through it.

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I grew up in a place called Port Harcourt, Nigeria, the youngest of four. What I remember most about Nigeria was the ease. I would play by the pool, have fun with friends.

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Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.

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I always say my Christianity and my virginity don't limit options. I think that they refine my options.

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'First Gen' is kind of the ode to my parents and to really all immigrant children who come here with kind of a preemptive expectation placed on them, and then they get there, and they realize the American dream is bigger than, sometimes, what our parents dreamt.

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I grew up with three older brothers, so I'm very much a tomboy in real life.

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I have a saying: Nigerians don't fit in second place. Everything we do we go hard.

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I'm just gonna talk about being Nigerian-American. I'm gonna talk about being single. I'm gonna talk about what happened to me on the train today. I'm gonna talk about so many other things that, as a comic, you're able to talk about because you see the world in sarcasm.

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Auto-pay is not for convenience; it's for the gainfully employed.

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To not have the wherewithal to give fully to a relationship bothered me.

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There's random people calling my phone: 'Your mother gave me your number.' My mother has tried to set me up so many times long-distance.

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I want to do more good work. That's very much my parents' influence in me.

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There are different types of experiences, and all of them are valid, and all of them deserve to be portrayed in a real way.

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For me, staying ready has always been, like, the preparations: do the behind-the-scenes or do what you think that's not sexy that nobody will see, but when they do see it, it's like, 'Oh, snap... what she's doing on her own, we'll add to that, and it'll blow up.'

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A lot of people hustle differently, and I was like, 'You know what, let me hustle and create, and let me have something to show,' cuz my hustle led to opportunity.

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I'm grounded in who I am.

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