I was supposed to be the doctor in my family.Yvonne OrjiTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“I was supposed to be the doctor in my family.
“Getting into comedy was difficult for my parents to comprehend. I think now they are really proud I stuck to it.”Yvonne OrjiComedy
“There are different types of experiences, and all of them are valid, and all of them deserve to be portrayed in a real way.”Yvonne Orji
“Every sleep doctor I've talked to said it was an urban legend that you shouldn't wake up a sleepwalker. All that will happen is that you will get condescended to.”Mike BirbigliaDoctor
“I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.”Keith RichardsDoctor
“I'm just gonna talk about being Nigerian-American. I'm gonna talk about being single. I'm gonna talk about what happened to me on the train today. I'm gonna talk about so many other things that, as a comic, you're able to talk about because you see the world in sarcasm.”Yvonne OrjiComic
“I think there is this narrative that if you are a black woman, and you are strong, and you are educated, it's like, 'Good luck getting a black man.'”Yvonne OrjiEducated
“Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.”Yvonne OrjiLessons
“I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.”Khaled HosseiniDoctor
“I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I'm going after a basketball scholarship and be a doctor. I got injured and my marks began to drop.”Louis Gossett, Jr.Doctor
“I knew I didn't want to be a doctor but didn't know what I wanted to do. I prayed, and all I heard back was: 'Do comedy.' It was something I had never done before, but I gave in, tried comedy, and the rest is history.”Yvonne OrjiDoctor