Ego Nwodim

“When we don't have work I feel like I'm floating through the days and it could be any day of the week.”

“I used to pencil in my eyebrows super thick and squarish. I look back at pictures and think, Why didn't anybody tell me I looked crazy?! Then I remember my older brother used to joke about my eyebrows. I just thought he was being a hater - until a nail technician who was doing my pedicure suggested I thin out my brows a little bit.”

“The most important thing for me is to know myself and be proud of the work that I do.”

“As diversity becomes part of the larger conversation, we're going to see more industries become more inclusive.”

“It's a scary endeavor to pursue acting because so much of it is unstable.”

“Slice of life and dramedies are the pieces that I most gravitate toward, because I think that's life - life is not all drama, nor is it all comedy. That type of work is really important to me.”

“In general, I gravitate toward anything where I can be funny, but as a consumer myself, I enjoy dramedies.”

“I want to be in films and I want to do more TV as well.”

“As a comedian, part of what's so gratifying for me is hearing people laugh.”

“I do really enjoy watching documentaries because it's such an interesting foray into other people's lives.”

“I didn't enjoy the bio major - it's not my passion clearly. But I have an aversion to quitting.”

“You just feel so safe and loose and free and at ease performing with Kenan. He's an incredible talent to watch and learn from, but as a scene partner, he aims to really take care of and make his scene partners look like comedic geniuses.”

“I was pre-med, because I'm Nigerian American. And pretty much all parents want us to be doctors. I was a business minor as well in college, and I loved my business classes.”

“I think a lot of things that I write do have some type of message behind them, but that's not always how they're born.”

“There is nothing more beautiful than a woman who is comfortable being herself, done up or done down.”

“I feel like I've always been entertaining.”

“Instagram has become a great tool for assessing whether or not you want to see a certain person in real life.”

“I am a person of faith, is how I'd like to describe myself. And praying is just a conversation with God.”

“If I go to sleep with makeup on, I'm waking up with pimples - immediately, first thing in the morning.”

“Before I had 'S.N.L.,' I had a lot of gold rings that were not real gold because I was broke.”