160 Quotes by Lupita Nyong'o

I come from a very close class. I lucked out because drama schools are often very competitive... I have fourteen classmates.

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

In the madness, you have to find calm.

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 else's shoes, and to take someone else's circumstances personally.

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.

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

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

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

Personally, I don't ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful.