Lupita Nyong'o

I loved duping my parents; I liked manipulating them. It was a way for me to stand out. It was fun.

— Lupita Nyong'o

As actors, you become an expert at starting over.

— Lupita Nyong'o

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.…

— Lupita Nyong'o

I'm pretty awesome at making salad dressings.

— Lupita Nyong'o

You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

— Lupita Nyong'o

I come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than…

— Lupita Nyong'o

One of the reasons why I went to the Yale School of Drama is because I felt that I was acting off…

— Lupita Nyong'o

Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.

— Lupita Nyong'o

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

— Lupita Nyong'o

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

— Lupita Nyong'o

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught…

— Lupita Nyong'o

We don't get to pick the genes we want. There's room in this world for beauty to be diverse.

— Lupita Nyong'o

European standards of beauty are something that plague the entire world - the idea that darker skin is not beautiful, that light…

— Lupita Nyong'o

I haven't always been gluten-free.

— Lupita Nyong'o

With success comes more responsibility, a larger size of existence, which is uncomfortable.

— Lupita Nyong'o

I want to be uncomfortable - acting is uncomfortable.

— Lupita Nyong'o

To this day, I love eating steak tacos before going to the red carpets.

— Lupita Nyong'o

The set of '12 Years a Slave' was an extremely joyous one! We all recognized that we were making a powerful, necessary…

— Lupita Nyong'o

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got…

— Lupita Nyong'o

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

— Lupita Nyong'o

As human beings, it is our nature to dream about the future, but there is no future without a healthy nature. It's…

— Lupita Nyong'o

Our business is complicated because intimacy is part and parcel of our profession; as actors, we are paid to do very intimate…

— Lupita Nyong'o

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…

— Lupita Nyong'o

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It keeps us honest.

— Lupita Nyong'o

To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

— Lupita Nyong'o