Okieriete Onaodowan

Actor

58 Quotes

It feels good to create, and to actually have input, and your choices are your choices.

There's something to be said about seeing your face represented. There's just something really important about that. It just draws you in more.

I just loved listening to hip-hop, I love the words. The angry words resonated with me.

It feels good to create, and to actually have input, and your choices are your choices.

The finances of a smash hit do not affect the actors in any way shape or form, it's the attention that comes with it. If it's a financial hit, then a lot of people are seeing it.

As you get older, you grow and you revaluate.

Young kids who are out there who are upset and angry, they can watch this and realize that you can speak out through your pen and not just with rage and anger, and challenge the people who are telling you things that you don't like to hear, like 'Hamilton' did.

I want to exercise all my muscles. I want to do plays. I want to do everything.

What we do in theatre is unlike film or any other medium. We can never really truly see the work that we made because we're in in.

You have to cultivate diversity for it to work, and I feel the 'Great Comet' didn't take the time to cultivate it. They didn't want to invest in it.

It's important to see yourself represented.

Despair is despair, sorrow is sorrow, death is death. It's not about who is experiencing it; it's about building a bridge of empathy across these experiences.

Despair is despair, sorrow is sorrow, death is death. It's not about who is experiencing it; it's about building a bridge of empathy across these experiences.

Young kids who are out there who are upset and angry, they can watch this and realize that you can speak out through your pen and not just with rage and anger, and challenge the people who are telling you things that you don't like to hear, like 'Hamilton' did.

There's something to be said about seeing your face represented. There's just something really important about that. It just draws you in more.

They're so effusive with their love... theatre fans. I'm a big comic book fan and there's a lot of parallels with them that they're just dedicated and loyal.

All that acting and all that stuff and emoting and crap will come after you know what you're doing. So when you get - when I get on stage, I don't have to think about it.

It's important to see yourself represented.

The finances of a smash hit do not affect the actors in any way shape or form, it's the attention that comes with it. If it's a financial hit, then a lot of people are seeing it.

All that acting and all that stuff and emoting and crap will come after you know what you're doing. So when you get - when I get on stage, I don't have to think about it.

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