Lupita Nyong'o Quotes
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I don't need to be so full of myself that I feel I am without flaw. I can feel beautiful and imperfect at the same time. I have a healthy relationship with my aesthetic insecurities.
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I haven't always been gluten-free.
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As human beings, we aren't as individual as we'd like to believe we are. And I think that's what makes acting possible. Despite the fact that I have not experienced something, I have it in my human capacity to imagine it and to put myself in someone else's shoes, and to take someone else's circumstances personally.
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Growing up, I had really bad skin. I had a skin disorder. Yes, I did. And my mother went to great lengths to try to find something to remedy it. I remember she took a trip to Madagascar and came back with all these alternative, medicinal herbs and stuff. They didn't smell so good, but I think they worked some magic.
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Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It... keeps us honest.
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I am very emotional about politics in a way that makes it hard for me to articulate things in a rational fashion.
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I value not being good at things, because children are not good at things.
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Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still experience it because we're a part of the African race. If it happened to one, it happened to all. We carry that burden.
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Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.
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To this day, I love eating steak tacos before going to the red carpets.
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I'm still trying to get over the fact that my name is being mentioned with people like Brad Pitt.
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Home is where my family is.
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I learned at Yale, one of the biggest lessons was to learn how special I am and therefore how totally unspecial I am. I was special among everyone else who was special. The fact that we're all so individual and that's what makes us special.
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When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor.
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I'm a crybaby.
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I love filmmaking, but I decided to go to drama school because I thought that when I'm 60 and looking back on my life, if acting hadn't been a part of it, I would hate myself.
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It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.
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I hope we can form a community where a woman can speak up about abuse and not suffer another abuse by not being believed and instead being ridiculed.
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I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.
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My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico. Then I moved back to Kenya shortly after I turned one, and I grew up in Kenya.
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I don't ever want to be president - let's just get that out of the way.
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The first time I cut all my hair off was when I was 19. I just got fed up going to the salon every week. I'd had enough! On a whim, it was off. It's low-maintenance.
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I loved make-believe. I was the child in the cupboard playing with my Barbies.
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It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.