Lupita Nyong'o Quotes
I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.
Quotes to Explore
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The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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There is no one true church.
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None of our series are ever static in terms of the dates. We always have a range of flexibility to respond to whatever may or may not happen.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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From a very young age, I would fall off the bed and wake up on the floor because of dreams. I have a memory from the age of four in which I felt God.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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There's something really interesting about having those close friends that you've had incredible times with but growing up and away from them. The underlying tensions, the shifting in the group dynamic, the little lies you tell to big yourself up: it's something that happens to us all.
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I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.
