Quotes by Lupita Nyong'o

About Lupita Nyong'o:

Lupita Amondi Nyong'o is a Mexican-Kenyan actress and film director. She was born in Mexico, but was raised in Kenya. She attended college in the United States, earning a Bachelor's degree in film and theater studies from Hampshire College.
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I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form... But I never want it to take over my acting.

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What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.

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I've loved the opportunity to learn about the fashion world and appreciate it as an art form, and I look forward to my continued education, but I never want it to take over my acting.

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I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

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One of the reasons why I went to the Yale School of Drama is because I felt that I was acting off of instinct, but sometimes that is not reliable. When you're not feeling it, what do you do? So, going to grad school was about getting the tools to jus...

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I'm pretty awesome at making salad dressings.

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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 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.

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I am thrilled beyond words that The Academy has recognized my performance in Steve McQueen's '12 Years a Slave,' and I am deeply proud to be in the company of my fellow nominees.

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I thought I was going to school to be other people, but really, what I learned was to be myself - accepting myself, my strengths and weaknesses.

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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 jo...

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In the madness, you have to find calm.

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As actors, you become an expert at starting over.

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I want to be uncomfortable - acting is uncomfortable.

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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 have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

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I feel privileged that people are looking up to me, and perhaps a dream will be born because of my presence.

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Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved for images of myself. I'd grown up watching a lot of American TV. There was very little Kenyan material, because we had an autocratic ruler who stifled our...

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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 ...

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We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

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Author Bio

  • NameLupita Nyong'o
  • DescriptionMexican-Kenyan actress and film director
  • BornMarch 1, 1983
  • CountryMexico
  • ProfessionActor; Film Director
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Supporting Actress