160 Quotes by Lupita Nyong'o

I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

What I will say is that what I have learned for myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else; and that myself is good enough; and that when I am being true to that self, then I can avail myself to extraordinary thingsYou have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflamed the heart and merchants the soul.

No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.

No matter where you’re from, your dreams are valid.

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.

It’s in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person’s circumstances and another person’s experience.