Mexican - Actress | March 1, 1983 -
Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.
Lupita Nyong'o
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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.
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I don't need to be so full of myself that I feel I am without flaw. I can feel beautiful and imperfect at the same time. I have a healthy relationship with my aesthetic insecurities.
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There have been rumors and rumors and rumors about my love life. That's the one area that I really like to hold close to my heart.
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What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture.
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We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.
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I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.
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As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.
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In the madness, you have to find calm.
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I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.
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I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that's how I check how I'm doing. It can be something simple like 'listen,' or 'find your feet.' And then afterward it's an assessment, so in a way it's not about booking the job or not. It's about what I learned as an actor about that character.
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My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico. Then I moved back to Kenya shortly after I turned one, and I grew up in Kenya.
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