…Orange Is The New Black’s Uzo Aduba, a.k.a. “Crazy Eyes” in the hit Netflix show:
[42:58 Talks at Google Q&A]
“(It’s) always important to keep your finger tapped in. Maybe you’re not working on the job at the moment but preparing for it in some capacity. Gratitude and recognition of that always in any area of your life is absolutely important—it keeps you sturdy and faithful that something will come. … When I moved to New York to start pursuing acting professionally, my mom dropped me off at the train station (my family is from Nigeria, we’re of the Igbo Tribe), she turned off the car and she said [speaks in a Nigerian accent], ‘Uzo, just work hard. All I’m going to ask you is to just work hard. I don’t know what will come, I don’t know when it will come, but something will come. I’ve never heard of nothing coming from hard work.‘ The what, the when, the why, the how, is less important [than] the doing of the thing. Something will come.”
