Lupita Nyong'o Quotes
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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 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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To this day, I love eating steak tacos before going to the red carpets.
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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 don't ever want to be president - let's just get that out of the way.
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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 grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. 'The Color Purple' was the first time I saw people who looked like me.
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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 give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that's how I check how I'm doing. It can be something simple like 'listen,' or 'find your feet.' And then afterward it's an assessment, so in a way it's not about booking the job or not. It's about what I learned as an actor about that character.
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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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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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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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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 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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Being a part of '12 Years a Slave' has been one of the most profound experiences of my life.
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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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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'm a crybaby.
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Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.
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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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What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.
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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 didn't love my hair when I was a child. It was lighter than my skin, which made me not love it so much. I was really kind of envious of girls with thicker, longer, more lush hair.