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Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

I love filmmaking, but I decided to go to drama school because I thought that when I'm 60 and looking back on my life, if acting hadn't been a part of it, I would hate myself.

Lupita Nyong'o

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: mexican
Birth: March 1, 1983

Topics

Life Love Myself Hate School Acting

I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

Joe Eszterhas

Change Idiot Way Write Screen Sure

On stage, I'm always nervous, but there is so much adrenalin, too. It's strange because I have to turn my back on the audience, and my audience is the orchestra. I communicate my energy to them, and they communicate it to the audience behind me!

Andris Nelsons

Me Energy Back Nervous Strange Turn

It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over.

Andy Van Slyke

Life Control Think Over Little Like

Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.

Martin Scorsese

Father Age Day Child Mind You

When something needs to get done and it doesn't get done, I take it personally. And that's just how you have to be.

Mike Daniels

You Done Take Something Get Just

I just thought it would be awesome to become a lawyer, especially being from a neighborhood seeing the police rough up so many people unnecessarily, people who haven't done nothing. Growing up with kids from dysfunctional families and stuff, I just felt that some kind of difference could be done. And now I'm getting to do it with music instead.

Lukas Forchhammer

Music Police People Growing Up Done

There is a qualitative difference between being a minority and being a majority. Majorities are stronger under psychological pressure because numbers count. But only if they are aware of it.

Peter Abrahams

Pressure Stronger Numbers Count

You've always got to have that inner confidence in you. That's where it all starts. You're gong to have good days, you're going to have bad days. You've got to have the same desire and try to get better each day.

Scott Tolzien

Good Confidence Day Better You Bad

I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits.

Tiffani Thiessen

Stress Now More Than Did Teenager

My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... life being brilliant.

Noel Gallagher

Life Romantic Wife Say Brilliant

However one feels about the war in Iraq, realize that our troops deserve our support 100 percent.

Ric Keller

War Support Deserve Realize Percent

My mom passed down to me her old Levi's denim jacket. When I left it on a plane, I was devastated. I've never been able to find anything with quite the same cool, faded look.

Lily James

Me Cool Mom Look Find Down