Lupita Nyong'o Quotes
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I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport.
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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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Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.
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I can speak of actors that I love. I love Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, her tenacity. I love Charlize Theron. She's so surprising and so exhilarating, the kinds of projects she takes on. Marion Cotillard as well.
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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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I value not being good at things, because children are not good at things.
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To this day, I love eating steak tacos before going to the red carpets.
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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'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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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 haven't always been gluten-free.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don't ever want to be president - let's just get that out of the way.
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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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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.
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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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The Hollywood Film Awards were really stressful. It was the biggest press line I'd ever seen.