actresses-from-nigeria

"“I started Koko By Khloe Beauty as a response to limited quality skincare products in Africa. Unfortunately, there [are too many] hazardous skincare products in the African market. I wanted to go against the status quo and launch a cosmetics line that embraces different skin types and shades, providing them with well-trusted and patented products that nourish and promote healthy glowing skin.”"

"“I call myself the jack of all trades and muscle [to mean strength] of everything,”"

"“My business is all about making sure that all black women feel comfortable in their own skin.”"

"I always knew that I would be great but I think I didn’t know how tough it would be. Nothing ever prepares you for how tough the journey gets, it’s like a new level, a new devil"

"I think I have been around long enough to know that I need to ignore a lot of things. So I have learnt to ignore a lot of things. Either I’m cracking jokes about them or I’m ignoring them"

"Largely, because, corporate Ghana is highly affected, and when corporate Ghana is affected, it affects sponsorships, it affects the fact that comedians cannot walk into corporate organizations and seek sponsorships and just get it like that."

"I've turned out offers before because I know that you're paying others way more I am aware that you're paying others way more whatever it is"

"No, it's actually tougher when you're a woman. How many people want to sleep with a man before they help him"

"I think it's funny when people say that ‘because you are a woman is easier for you in the industry"

"The higher you go, the more things you have to battle with, the fact that you have to be better than the last, nothing prepares you for that but it has been an amazing journey"

"I looked beyond the glamour. I looked at all the creative works, and I looked at achieving something out of acting."

"I think I’m being extra-careful. I’m just being me, a total Nigerian to the core. We have our conservative side and I respect that a lot. I respect the family that I come from and the family that I am married to. I try not to mess around with the names that I answer. I answer my father’s name and my husband’s name as a compound name."

"Anybody can be a comedian same way anybody can be a doctor, lawyer or a pilot. In many societies around the world, a woman’s role has affected her flexibility in comedy. In countries that historically view women as inferior to men, comedy is seen as a masculine discipline but all that is changing."

"It has just been God and I feel like I’m still here for a bigger purpose, which could be to use my story to encourage other people."

"My passion, commitment, resilience, and love for excellence always make me want to do things better and bigger."

"I know my crafts and I can defend my handiwork wherever, whenever, and to whomever."

"There is an unreal level of nepotism and it exists in acting as well."

"Being sexy to me is being confident in who you are and your craft. Being able to stand out in any gathering you find yourself."

"https://www.nairaland.com/4438404/funke-adesiyan-how-tribal-marks/2."

"How My Tribal Marks Greatly Affected My Self-Esteem"

"Not many men can sincerely say they have been with only their partner for 10yrs without "playing". It doesn't make them bad people, it just makes them men."

"I’m more purpose-driven and I have a sense of direction. Now I know what is real and what is not."

"Cultivate the habit of saving/ investing. Years will pass by and you will be shocked at what you used your money to do."

"I am of the opinion that no matter your situation in life, you are not the first to go through such and neither would you be the last."

"If you can’t afford me, don’t bother."

"I believe that for you to succeed, you must face challenges and at a point you're sure you've overcome some, that's when you'd know that you are growing."

"If one makes music that connects to what people feel, the people would never forget one. I have to make music from a place of truth."

"Everything we do in life can be better."

"You’ve got to know what you’re doing at every point in time."

"Baby Blues was that project I went into and it felt like I wasn’t prepared for the depth of its discovery.There was always something to learn."

"Maturity has a lot to do with the mind and intelligent."

"My aim is to excel at whatever I do."

"We’re all not warriors from Black Panther, we’re all not the Milaje. We cry, we bleed, we experience everything."

"I think there are different ways to show solidarity. If you feel like you're able to go and do that, by all means do that to speak out."

"Your birth is my birth; your death is my death."

"It gets better as I get older, just like good wine."

"E no easy to waka make head no shake. Life happens and I always remind myself that as time goes on gurrl, shake it off!"

"When a female artiste wants to do music, the first thing any man will think of as a businessman is being sexy. I’m sexy, I’m smart, I love God, but it is also important to find a person or people who understand that."

""There were some things that one must have done in the past as a youth which is called youthful exuberance and which I can no longer do at this stage""

""I use everything God has given to me to talk to people.""

""Thank God I know he is still there for me. I take all the criticism as corrective""

""Yes,there might be moment of feeling whereby you want to walk away from God,but the moment you make up your mind to follow him He will help you.""

""If you are not patient enough to listen to them or to listen to their reason or if you are not patient enough to listen to your actors, there is going to be a problem""

"", I would never think that I would get the opportunity to write a Nollywood classic like that. For it to happen last year, I’m grateful.""

""I’m one of those people that believe everything happens for a reason and I feel like these things that happened are part of the reasons why I’m where I am right now.""

""I saw it as a once in a lifetime opportunity that I cannot miss. It was hard, but I had to do it.""

""The only thing I can vividly remember is my experience in school. I went to one of the most popular schools in those days, Maryland""

""I usually tell people that there are challenges in all careers, even for meat sellers in the market. One has to pay his or her dues when coming up""

""If you don’t have endurance and patience, you wouldn’t be able to make it""

""Acting in the Northern Nigeria is a problem because our people see is a profession that isn’t normal for ladies to take up. Thankfully, all that is changing and today I am so proud that I am like a role model to others.""