Yvonne Orji

I started comedy in 2006. I didn't even think it was a thing I could do.

I want to own a comedy club.

For me, comedy was deftly terrifying.

People are surprised I do comedy! And I'm like, 'Guys, that's all I have been doing. For, like, forever.'

A healthy smile has always been important to me.

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.'

You turn 'Insecure' on, and you see a sea of brown. You see at the core of it a strong friendship between two brown-skinned girls.

I came to America when I was six. In true African form, my parents wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer or engineer.

Everyone has met or seen or interacted with a Nigerian in America because we leave Nigeria for here. We're your doctors. We're your lawyers. We're your child's best friend. All of the above.

I was supposed to be the doctor in my family.

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.

I don't know who I'll end up with, but whoever he is must have a strong religious commitment, must be someone who loves God.