99 Quotes by Yvonne Orji

I grew up with three older brothers, so I'm very much a tomboy in real life.

I believe in being diligent but also cut yourself some slack. It's okay in the grand scheme of life.

Before 'Insecure,' I was a wedding emcee - a host for weddings. That's a world that a lot of people are not familiar with.

I grew up in a place called Port Harcourt, Nigeria, the youngest of four. What I remember most about Nigeria was the ease. I would play by the pool, have fun with friends.

I don't even know anyone who hasn't watched 'Sex and the City.' If you didn't, we can't be friends.

I took organic chemistry, and I got my first-ever F. I ended up going to summer school, and the whole time, I'm thinking, 'I am not good at sciences.'

By the time I got to George Washington University, I had been a straight-A student in high school.

'First Gen' is kind of the ode to my parents and to really all immigrant children who come here with kind of a preemptive expectation placed on them, and then they get there, and they realize the American dream is bigger than, sometimes, what our parents dreamt.

Don't take it personally if you're met with opposition. Work hard anyway.