I feel a responsibility to myself and my parents and the people whose love has gotten me this far - people who… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
I feel privileged that people are looking up to me and perhaps a dream will be born because of my presence, — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
You win an Oscar, and immediately people ask how you feel. So you don't have time to actually feel anything because you… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's so much more fun to do the work than to talk about it. I will have to admit that. Everybody gets… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
Every time I overcome an obstacle, it feels like success. Sometimes the biggest ones are in our head - the saboteurs that… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
Everyone said, ‘Brace yourself, Lupita! Keep a granola bar in that clutch of yours!’ I didn’t really understand what they meant, and… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
I've worked hard to feel beautiful in my natural skin. Personally, I don't ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful. — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
I loved duping my parents; I liked manipulating them. It was a way for me to stand out. It was fun. — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
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… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
I come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I went to the Yale School of Drama is because I felt that I was acting off of instinct,… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough. — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
We don't get to pick the genes we want. There's room in this world for beauty to be diverse. — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image