Lupita Nyong'o Quotes
Our business is complicated because intimacy is part and parcel of our profession; as actors, we are paid to do very intimate things in public. That's why someone can have the audacity to invite you to their home or hotel, and you show up.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
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The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.
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'I Want It That Way' is a feelgood song. It's happy, easy to sing along with, and everybody knows it.
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From a certain age, I sort of accepted myself for what I was. And although to other people it was like nothing ever goes right, I had a really nice attitude that I'd inherited from my parents, and especially from my dad.
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'Hispanic' was the term adopted by the government - by the Nixon government in particular - and that made the community feel it was being branded.
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I actually have to pick and chose stuff that I know I'm going to bomb at.
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Our business is complicated because intimacy is part and parcel of our profession; as actors, we are paid to do very intimate things in public. That's why someone can have the audacity to invite you to their home or hotel, and you show up.
