Skip to content

Actually Quote by Uzo Aduba

“I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.” quote by Uzo Aduba — Download Open image

“I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings)

More by Uzo Aduba

I loved Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Its about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria…

Image

The first information I consume in the morning is probably 'The New York Times' and then my Twitter feed. I think Twitter is a…

Image

If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.

Image

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…

Image

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…

Image

On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some…

Image

My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give…

Image

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…

Image

My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement…

Image

I grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts, and it goes without saying that there weren't many Nigerian families in that town,…

Image

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

Image

When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead…

Image

Explore all 49 Uzo Aduba quotes

More Actually quotes

I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have…

Image

I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's…

Image

I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.

Image

You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of…

Image

Failure actually makes you strong.

Image

There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these…

Image

I'm from Europe, England, and I actually lived in Italy.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Image

The alternative comedy scene is actually pretty small, I guess.

Image

I was a very good student. Procrastinating gives me anxiety, and getting a B really ticked me off. Sure, I didn't always want to…

Image

The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost…

Francis Collins

Image

Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better.

Image

I actually do sing sometimes.

Image

Browse all 3,906 Actually quotes