Lupita Nyong'o Quotes
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Home is where my family is.
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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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To this day, I love eating steak tacos before going to the red carpets.
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I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during the third year he was there. And when I was 16, I returned to Mexico to learn Spanish.
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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'm still trying to get over the fact that my name is being mentioned with people like Brad Pitt.
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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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Ralph Fiennes was a pivotal influence on me. He asked me, 'So what is it you want to do?' I very shyly, timidly admitted that I wanted to be an actor. He sighed, and he said, 'Lupita, only be an actor if you feel there is nothing else in the world you want to do - only do it if you feel you cannot live without acting.'
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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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Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.
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I'm a crybaby.
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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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There have been rumors and rumors and rumors about my love life. That's the one area that I really like to hold close to my heart.
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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 come from a very close class. I lucked out because drama schools are often very competitive... I have fourteen classmates.
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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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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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My conscious life has all been in Kenya, and it's my point of reference. But going back to Mexico was very formative.
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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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What fame does is there is an illusion of familiarity that is cast into the world. So it's about negotiating with that illusion because, oftentimes, you encounter people who have encountered you, but you haven't encountered them. It's a little weird to find your footing.
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I was part of a growing community of women who were secretly dealing with harassment by Harvey Weinstein. But I also did not know that there was a world in which anybody would care about my experience with him.
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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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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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Being a part of '12 Years a Slave' has been one of the most profound experiences of my life.