Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.

Lupita Nyong'o

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• People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Reality

• The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Government

• He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Speak
  • Does

• I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you'll never know when someone may recommend you for a bigger one.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • May
  • Know
  • Yourself

• There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Future
  • Dream
  • Create

• I discovered the slip dress, which I think is one of the more French things because when you take off your clothes, even when to go into a shop to buy something, or you're going to Riccardo Tisci to try on a suit, it's like having protection.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Clothes
  • Dress

• I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Know
  • Against
  • Olympics

• I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Computer
  • After

• I'm a professor. I know that people in research labs can do miraculous things if they're given the resources.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Know
  • Research

• I never got beaten up, because I was a wisecracking jokester. I could make a bully laugh before he delivered a punch.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Up
  • Never
  • Laugh

• I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Great
  • Job
  • Waiting

• I strongly support an 'all-of-the-above' energy policy that includes additional development of wind, clean coal, and bio-fuels.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Energy
  • Support
  • Wind

• I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Growing

• If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Think
  • Car
  • Couple

• The people in my district don't call me 'congressman' - doesn't matter how old they are, they call me 'Jack.' They see me at the grocery store, at soccer games.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • People
  • Me
  • Soccer

• I look for roles that allow me to immerse in different worlds, immerse in worlds that are different from mine. Then, when you finish a film, you're a different person. I look for that. I look to be impacted, to be transformed, changed by my roles. That's why I do this.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Different
  • Why
  • Me

• A lot of people love to do affirmations first thing in the morning - to keep themselves feeling peppy and positive.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Positive

• I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

  

  Harold Kushner
  • World
  • Death
  • Fear

• To Meath of the pastures,

  

  Padraic Colum

• A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Christian
  • State
  • Completion

• Steve Jobs has created his own precious little walled garden. He's looking more and more like Howard Hughes, holed up in his penthouse, making sure he doesn't come in contact with any germs. Now Google is saying, hey, nice garden, have fun sitting in it. By yourself.

  

  Daniel Lyons
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Nice

• An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Hours
  • Lifetime
  • Terror

• Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o