160 Quotes by Lupita Nyong'o

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.

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

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

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.

It doesn’t escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else’s.

I’ve worked hard to feel beautiful in my natural skin. Personally, I don’t ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful.

I grew up in Nairobi, which is the capital of Kenya, so it’s hustle and bustle, and there’s always something going on.

I can speak of actors that I love. I love Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, her tenacity. I love Charlize Theron. She’s so surprising and so exhilarating, the kinds of projects she takes on. Marion Cotillard as well.

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