Actress

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

People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.

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.

I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

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

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.

Onstage, even though you're here together with the other actor, face-to-face, playing out the scene, you also have that other ear pointed out toward the audience and how they're listening. That informs a lot.

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.

I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

I'll definitely wear orange on the red carpet!

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.

My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.

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

I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.

I love physicality. I love movement very much.

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.

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.

I've heard of nothing coming from nothing, but I've never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.

My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.

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.