I think home has become my friends and family, wherever they are.
I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
Issa Rae is a hero of mine, and I'm going to try not to completely creep her out. I love 'Insecure.'
I would like to try to never do the same thing twice, and fail huge sometimes.
I find theater terrifying. There are no do-overs, you know? It's all happening live. You need to be in it 100 percent at any given moment, and the audience is right there. I'm really intimidated by theater, but it is my first true love. I love theater. I love that anxiety.
It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'
Early on, you don't have the luxury of a lot of choices. Sometimes you're forced to do things that will advance your career and not necessarily things that fulfill you artistically, but I've been fortunate to do a lot of both.
No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.
It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.
Home is where your rump rests.
You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
Drama was all I ever wanted to do. There was no plan B!
I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!
I can't take anything seriously.
I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
I can't claim to ever have done stand-up.
There's an audience that is paid to laugh at my jokes. I'm playing a character while I'm doing stand-up. Real stand-ups, man, they're playing themselves. I'd be far too terrified.
Comedy was not necessarily the thing that I thought it would be, but I was searching for something that felt scary to me.
I can finally say I'm a professional actress.
