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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.
Lupita Nyong'o
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I'm interested in generating work for myself. I have trouble with this waiting-for-the-phone-to-ring lifestyle, especially after drama school, which was so creatively fulfilling.
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The set of '12 Years a Slave' was an extremely joyous one! We all recognized that we were making a powerful, necessary and beautiful film, and we weren't about doing it without that sense of responsibility, and we recognized that we needed each other to tell this story. We also knew we needed to hold each other up as we told the story.
Lupita Nyong'o -
The beauty standards had nothing to do with me in Mexico. It was such a bizarre, dire time for my hair. I was living in a small town where there was not any semblance of an African community. I'd have to take the bus to Mexico City to find a woman who could braid my hair. That was two and a half hours away.
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Being a part of '12 Years a Slave' has been one of the most profound experiences of my life.
Lupita Nyong'o -
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.
Lupita Nyong'o -
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.
Lupita Nyong'o
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The Hollywood Film Awards were really stressful. It was the biggest press line I'd ever seen.
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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.
Lupita Nyong'o -
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.
Lupita Nyong'o -
Being considered a fashion star is wonderful. It's definitely a bonus thing.
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In the madness, you have to find calm.
Lupita Nyong'o -
My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell this story about what school I went to and what uniform I wore and who I talked to at lunchtime and what I ate, and my mother was like, 'This girl does not even go to school.'
Lupita Nyong'o
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Human beings have an instinct for freedom.
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The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.
Lupita Nyong'o -
I haven't always been gluten-free.
Lupita Nyong'o -
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.
Lupita Nyong'o -
I'm Mexican and Kenyan at the same time. I've seen the quarrels over my nationality, but I'm Kenyan and Mexican at the same time. So again, I am Mexican-Kenyan, and I am fascinated by carne asada tacos.
Lupita Nyong'o -
I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.
Lupita Nyong'o
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I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.
Lupita Nyong'o -
Every single laundromat, grocery store, everything is called 'Lupita' in Mexico.
Lupita Nyong'o -
I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did.
Lupita Nyong'o -
Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.
Lupita Nyong'o