"My grandmother got the phone call. I could not go and pick it up, I was too nervous. And she was like, 'Yeah, they want you.' I just started crying and screaming and running all over the house. I just kind of thought, 'You know what, it's my interpretation. I'm just going to give it a go. They must have picked me for some reason.'"

"My great grandmother, Martha, was hired at 11 years old to be a worker to people. I dedicate the role to her because it definitely chimes in on some of the things that she would have gone through."

"I've just always been that child that spent a lot of time around adults when I was younger...I feel like I am super observant of everything everything around me, and I think that makes me a little wise beyond my years. People say I'm like a 40-year-old in a 17-year-old's body."

"I don't really know what the switch is. Any time I'm in a studio, step on stage, or get onto a music video set, there's a five-second reset where I black out and turn into this confident, fearless person."

"My only way to actually know what I’m feeling is if I take an instrument and just start splatting out words. It’s so random. It’s very much like my subconscious speaks; otherwise I have no idea what I’m really thinking and I’m like, ‘what is going on in my brain right now.’"

"Since I was 13 years old, I've been writing songs about how I feel and mental health. So many of my songs are genuinely just my diary entries."

"The most rewarding part is the feeling I get when I am performing on stage. Yes, before I go on stage I get nervous, but when I'm on stage it's the most magical, surreal feeling."

"Women who are leaders can utilize this and make an even bigger impact. I know not everyone dreams about being a beauty pageant winner, but everyone should be allowed to pursue their dreams."

"In Uganda, the culture that you’re born into is kind of what you follow throughout the rest of your life, but when I came here, it felt more like I had the option to be my own person and choose where I wanted my life to go."

"Another thing I got from living in Uganda is that there’s such a strong sense of community; everyone who lived in that village was considered my family."

"I was very exposed to a different world of art and culture and different philosophies, and I feel grateful for that because it helped shape my idea of the world"

"Once you start to become more aware of different things and look at the bigger picture, it’s not so black and white"

"Even though acting is a creative outlet, it’s not something that you can do by yourself unless you’re reading scripts or analyzing movies"

"My family has always been quite theatrical just in our being"

"That was my introduction to character study and acting as a means of understanding people and relationships"

"I want to experiment and push myself to see how far I can go. I’m down for anything that’s as far from me as possible. So whatever that means to you, to whoever’s reading this, I just want to do that. I want to do some crazy shit"

"When I moved to New York, it was the first time I felt that I could live for myself and try different things"

"But I also am a firm believer that it’s about the people you have around you"

"In Uganda, I would never have thought of doing this job. Not because it doesn’t happen there but because it’s as if, in my mind and in my family’s mind, we already had a completely different path mapped out for our lives. Instead, Canada has opened up new opportunities for me that I could not have imagined"

"Growing up in Uganda, I saw a lot of white people, but I never felt like a minority—I thought this is what it’s like everywhere"

"I feel like when you’re putting too much pressure on something it tends to combust, so you have to find pockets of different creative release"

"When we moved to Vancouver, my mother had to relearn a lot of things—the only things that she really got to bring with her were her religion and her culture"

"I’ve never really had somewhere that feels like home."

"They teach you that as an improviser you should never censor yourself. Whatever comes to your mind immediately, you say it - you go with it."

"I've learned that if the human brain is told it can't have something, it then wants that thing more than anything in the universe."

"We tweak the jokes, and on our best nights, our audience keeps laughing. We don’t want to leave much room for them to breath."

"I just find Christmas so overwhelming. So if the CBC poll was taken during Christmas, no wonder people feel that way."

"It’s been a joy to write material for such a specific demographic."

"“Slowly getting better!!! Great coaching from Mr. Curry""

""Golf lessons and champagne with @aurorajames @ericamalbon.”"

"Fun day out with the LADIES WHO GOLF..."

"My family loves me and accepts me for who I am. No parent can stop loving his child. I am daddy's little girl in his eyes. Of course, they don't want me to continue [in pornography], but I tell them my plans, what I am doing and, most importantly, I tell them I am happy and that's what they want most."

"At the beginning of my career, I received so much hate mail and death threats and all sorts of crazy things when I first came into the adult entertainment industry that I said there is no way I will ever go to India as Sunny Leone because they are so angry at me."

"Mothers are always mothering."

"I’ve always been a rebel, which means I question the hell out of things and yelling at me doesn’t do any good."

"It goes back to sonic frequency and how that can translate energetically and get me in my body. I have a dance background, and I was in choir growing up. I used to be very shy, so I’d express myself through movement and sound. I always end up going back to that as my safe comfort place."

"I’m always quite fond of Canadian greats. I was probably too young when I got onboard the Cronenberg train, but I remember watching the Dead Ringers film for the first time. I think I knew I was a bit strange when I watched The Fly, but that solidified it for me because I loved it."

"Conor Leslie made a comment in passing to me that I now say to everyone I meet: You could be the most brilliant shade of orange, but they want blue, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so release it. Another one, from an interview with Bryan Cranston: Auditioning is your job until you book a job, and when that job is done, auditioning is your job again. Mentally, it can release you from a lot."

"Having power means a lot of things: getting closer to the truth and, therefore, to danger... having to make sacrifices... having to accept that difficult decisions you make will be misunderstood."

"Growing up in front of the camera has in one way left me with a sense of missing out on what the ‘high school experience’ would have been like"

"Diversity has always been incredibly important, but we have not always had the progress to support there being more inclusion in the entertainment industry until more recent times."

"Storytelling is a big one, it allows you to conceive of possibilities you may not have otherwise seen as achievable."

"My key to developing any relationship with the characters I portray, whether it is Charlotte on ‘Henry Danger’ or any other, is to find things about them that I can directly relate to and pull from in my own life."

"There are so many options for what you can create, so through trial and error over the years, I’ve developed more specific styles and I just trust I will create pieces that others will feel comfortable and confident in."

"We make choices and we look at them. Love is a choice. You love somebody because you choose to do so after the passion’s gone, after the fire’s burned out or consumed you and left you less than you were before."

"Your character has sort of basic fundamental traits and beliefs and you remind yourself of those, then you’re really just present with the person and the writers do such a great job."

"That’s the real great joy of acting for me. It’s the moment to moment exploration to be creative enough to allow yourself to reveal yourself to feel how you would be feeling in that moment."

"When you make a choice, understand that it is your choice, you’re doing it and I’m the person that you hurt."

"I like a guy who has a strong sense of integrity"