Ayo Edebiri

Playing with masculine silhouettes and subverting the expectations of womenswear is so much fun.

— Ayo Edebiri

I realize how much fashion can help you tell stories, really. As an actress, as a storyteller, that's so crucial.

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I went to NYU for writing. And I think writing and being in writing rooms in service of other people bought me…

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Because comedy is my bedrock, expressing my opinions is something I'm so used to in my career. Even as a writer, saying…

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Work can be a very intimate thing and a very personal thing and a very emotional thing, and I think when you're…

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I'm really attracted to things that just make me excited.

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I couldn't predict tonally what the show was going to be, and that not knowing, that curiosity, really drew me to 'The…

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All my prom pictures are like the top half of my face is so puffy and also it was so humid that…

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There's so much technical and practical skill that goes into everybody's jobs, and wages should reflect that. Massive companies shouldn't be able…

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I was babysitting. I was working restaurant jobs, doing freelance, doing late-night shows where you could transcribe. I was working as much…

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In general, I'm a very private person.

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I wanted to be a high school English teacher and I looked like how I do now, but I looked even younger,…

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People like to see people kiss on TV.

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I grew up in a family where my parents were always volunteering at polling places and always making calls and stuff. I…

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When you're in a woman in a male-dominated industry, in an industry that's not built for you to have a sustainable life,…

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In order to understand comedy, you need to understand what's sad about the world.

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I tried to find ways to express my style. And I think once I got to school, especially, I was like, Oh,…

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Yeah, my mom was born-again.

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I used to go to Erewhon Market and think, 'Oh, what random actor am I going to see here?' Now I'm like,…

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I realized: it's O.K. that 'Babe' is one of my favorite movies, because, structurally, it's actually kind of a brilliant movie! These…

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I remember singing in the choir and doing plays, and my god-mom, she was like, 'You know what? This may not be…

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We are constantly dealing with the embarrassment of being alive.

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I'm very anxious and kind of dorky and weird, and definitely was that as a kid.

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I finished this podcast about the Iraq War that was really good called 'Blowback' - I just really like white people telling…

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I got off Twitter just for my own mental health. It's kind of amazing. It's one of those social media sites where…

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