"My greatest fear as an artist is time management. I want to be a great mother and loving wife, so I don’t want to be carried away looking for money. I know how time consuming acting is so I’m praying to God for help in handling sensitive situation."

"I shot my first movie ‘Ayomi’ while in school. I was in Year Two or Three then."

"A true fan knows the kind of person you are. If they read things online, they can tell if you truly did it or not."

"I could have posted her picture when she was still a baby, but she was still very young and I did not even have time for social media. The only thing I did was to upload posts and leave. I wanted her to be a year old before unveiling her face."

"Working with Tatiana was awesome. She has a calm and appealing personality. It was easy for us to get things done fast."

"“I find it rude when a man walks through the door before a lady. Who raised you?”!"

""Do not give up on your dreams but rather stay positive"."

"I don’t know, all I know is that I just try to do the best I can as a producer and an actor."

"I won’t say slowing down, it’s about being more intentional about the kind of job you want to be identified with. Because I feel like after being in Nollywood for over two decades, you want to do certain roles that are very challenging outside your norm, stretching yourself."

"Let me say that I like to work on movies that would be seen internationally. It can be a Nollywood that would be globally accepted."

"I’ve featured in a lot of other people’s films aside from mine but over a decade ago, I started being choosy of the kind of movies I feature in. I wanted to go for more challenging roles. I want to play more of an outside the box role that stretches my character."

"She’s delightful to work with and is very clear with her directions. As a producer, she is very organised. We have very few ‘actor’s directors’ in this industry and she’s one of the very few."

"The story and the role are different from anything I’ve done."

"I play Ada, a heavily burdened house wife on a mission to finding fulfilment in her five-year-old marriage. She becomes increasingly desperate and takes a path uncommon to many to fulfil her quest."

""I don’t know. I think I just really think differently from a lot of people. I don’t know. What I mean by that is there are certain things I don’t let get to me"."

"I will marry the man of my dreams and not the man society dreams for me."

"Anjola is a very dark character, infact I remember when we were in the Basement shooting, it was so dark in there that it literally affected me, I wasn’t sleeping well. I’ll try to sleep and I’d wake up abruptly."

"I do want to marry, and I want to get it right once and for all. You know, we make such a big deal of it; we force people and put pressure on them to go in. When they eventually rush into this union, they make mistakes because they were only trying to please people."

"I respect the institution of marriage as my parents were married until death literally parted them and they had a beautiful relationship. The problem is at some point, it begins to annoy you because of how much importance people have placed on it."

"Film is often the perfect vehicle to provide education about social issues and to inspire social and political change."

"What I think we can do better in Nollywood is, improve the quality of our content. We should not compromise standards in any way."

"Art has a huge role to play in society and can be a catalyst for change and positivity if used in the right way."

"When people watch a good film with a good message, the result is the same everywhere."

"To become successful in anything, you need to first of all love what you do and have a strong passion for it. You also need to build up your skills, read widely, study your craft, and keep on setting bigger targets for yourself."

"Growth is a gradual process and you must aspire to it every day. This must be backed with a strong determination to succeed."

"Believing strongly that God has given you all the abilities you need, you can be anything you want to be."

"When someone is not free to do what they feel like doing, like every other person on the street, it causes depression which can even lead to death."

"If you want to introduce Jesus to people, you have to look good. If you want to tell people that Christ is a good saviour, the first thing they would look at is your appearance."

"Sometimes, it is necessary to have a taste of what it feels like to be an ordinary woman on the street."

"My burning desire is to lead my generation into the very act of worship, worshiping the Lord in spirit and in truth."

"“No, no man yet. I decided to give myself peace of mind. I haven’t even been dating. It’s been a while,”"

"“Don’t mean this in a bad way, but bad breath should be listed as a safety hazard. Not too long ago I got to hang out with a nice, hot chiseled actor. But mehn, his breath was almost taking out my lashes. If you were on a date with someone that had bad breath would you tell them?”"

""It's okay to make mistakes but always learn from them. If things don't go as planned today don't forget that there's always tommorow and we all learn in this journey of life"."

"Sometimes when there was no food to eat at home, I would take my daughter to my neighbor’s house under the pretext of watching television and stylishly feed my daughter and myself. That’s why I can relate to people because when you are down, you are down. But one cannot just stay down."

"I wrote Jamb and I was jammed. It’s not like I did not try."

"I didn’t have that stability of ‘this is what my mum wants, this is what my dad wants, this is how we are raised,’ and I don’t want my child to go through that."

"I want to believe that I have successfully been able to identify and differentiate my brand as Annie Idibia the actress/career woman and Annie Idibia the wife/mother. I prefer being addressed as Annie and not Tubaba’s wife. I hate this because I am my own person and have worked hard to build my career and brand. I should be identified and respected on that basis."

"Growing up with only my mother really affected my life and I suffered and I do not ever want my children to face the agony of not having both parents together because it was so hard for us. Even right now, the way the world is, children are more enlightened than we were in our days, so the pressure would be harder on the kids from broken homes right now. I do not want my children to ever experience that."

"Even my mistake will speak grace for me. Soon."

"In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experience that shaped you."

"As an individual, your own speech, your own choices matter, and can make a difference."

"The last 10 weeks have been the worst of my entire life. Yes the worst since I was born. I have gone from being so angry to being so broken and back to anger. And then Sadly which I am ashamed to admit suicide."

"I hope the people you speak to tell you that they’ll slap you if you dare give up. I hope they don’t give you permission to quit. I hope they ignite a fire in your heart and tell you to GET UP AND GET GOING"

"If there is something you are truly passionate about: a dream, a business concept, or anything that holds significant value to you… If you find yourself navigating a challenging period"

"Until you are in a disagreement with a manipulative and disrespectful person. Life will teach u that not everything needs to be clean"

"Health, really is wealth. If you're healthy, remember to be grateful. It is a huge blessing."

"It is possible to be correct and kind at the very same time."