Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

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  • I don't think I will ever be able to really articulate how bizarre it was to hear my name at the Academy Awards. I'd watched in my pajamas the year before! I felt numb - dazed and confused. I remember feeling light - weightless. More like limbo than cloud nine. At first I was like, This is my statue; nobody gets to touch it. And by midnight I was like, Please, someone, take this statue; it's too heavy! So I gave it to my brother, and he went off with it.

    Source: www.glamour.com
  • Everyone said, ‘Brace yourself, Lupita! Keep a granola bar in that clutch of yours!’ I didn’t really understand what they meant, and it was only once it was past that I realized that my body had been holding on by a thread to get through this very intense experience. Nothing can prepare you for awards season. The red carpet feels like a war zone, except you cannot fly or fight; you just have to stand there and take it.

    War   Fighting   Past  
  • I grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. 'The Color Purple' was the first time I saw people who looked like me.

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

    Red   Tacos   Eating  
    "Lupita Nyong’o Talks Being Born In Mexico And Why She Misses It". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2014.
  • I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

    Ostriches   Sand   Feels  
  • Drama is my sweet spot, but the thing about being an actor is that you want to do a variety of things. I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.

    Sweet   Drama   Actors  
    "Interview: Lupita Nyong’o Takes S&A Inside the Emotion and Brutality of Filming ’12 Years a Slave’". Interview with Jai Tiggett, www.indiewire.com. January 16, 2014.
  • Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.

    Thinking   Genius   Used  
  • What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • 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 Shares Beauty Secrets and Shows Off Spring's It Lip Colors". Interview with Bee Shapiro, www.glamour.com. February 10, 2014.
  • You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

  • Being called gorgeous is not a bad thing! But at the same time, I don’t want to thrive on people’s opinions of me.

    People   Want   Opinion  
    "Lupita Nyong'o, Elle Fanning, And More Cover 'Marie Claire'" by Marissa G. Muller, www.mtv.com. April 9, 2014.
  • I like people who don't tell you what you want to hear.

    Source: www.glamour.com
  • Growing up in Kenya, slum life was not far away. I had family that lived in slums, so I visited them often, and so I've seen and interacted with abject poverty. But I also know that because of that, poverty is not the definition of the people that live there.

    "The Beautiful Way Lupita Nyong'o's Career Has Come 'Full Circle' With Queen of Katwe". Interview with Shannon Vestal Robson, www.popsugar.com. September 23, 2016.
  • The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable.

    Needs   Way   Theater  
  • I've had somebody say, "I want you at my wedding, but I don't want you to pull focus, so wear jeans!" Losing my anonymity is something that's proving to be very challenging.... It's good for your soul to walk around unnoticed; there's so much you can't do when everybody knows who you are. And I so miss those little things.

    Jeans   Focus   Missing  
    Source: www.glamour.com
  • You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflamed the heart and merchants the soul.

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

    "'Mysterious and magical': Lupita Nyong'o on the power of performance". Interview with Stephanie Elam, www.cnn.com. February 17, 2014.
  • When I was in the second grade, one of my teachers said, "Where are you going to find a husband? How are you going to find someone darker than you?" I was mortified. I remember seeing a commercial where a woman goes for an interview and doesn't get the job. Then she puts a cream on her face to lighten her skin, and she gets the job! This is the message: that dark skin is unacceptable. I definitely wasn't hearing this from my immediate family - my mother never said anything to that effect - but the voices from the television are usually much louder than the voices of your parents.

    Mother   Teacher   Jobs  
    Source: www.glamour.com
  • Oprah played a big role in my understanding of what it meant to be female and to really step into your own power. I wouldn't even call her a role model; she was literally a reference point. You have the dictionary, you have the Bible, you have Oprah.

    Source: www.glamour.com
  • The first time I cut all my hair off was when I was 19. I just got fed up going to the salon every week. I'd had enough! On a whim, it was off. It's low-maintenance.

    Cutting   Week   Enough  
    Source: www.glamour.com
  • Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.

    Makeup   Worn  
    "Lupita Nyong'o Shares Beauty Secrets and Shows Off Spring's It Lip Colors". Interview with Bee Shapiro, www.glamour.com. February 10, 2014.
  • We don't get to pick the genes we want. There's room in this world for beauty to be diverse.

    World   Want   Rooms  
    Source: www.glamour.com
  • It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.

    "After Very Visible Roles, Lupita Nyong'o Looks To Disappear Into Character". Interview with Neda Ulaby, www.npr.org. April 23, 2016.
  • I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.

    Dream   School   Roles  
  • I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

    "Lupita Nyong’o’s speech on ‘black beauty’ underscores her significance in Hollywood" by Bethonie Butler, www.washingtonpost.com. March 1, 2014.
  • I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.

    Careers   Stories   Want  
  • You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

    Badass   Women   Risk  
    "Lupita Nyong’o On the Cover of Backstage This Week!". Interview With Mark Peikert, www.backstage.com. February 12, 2014.
  • I went to an all-boys high school, and they accepted girls in only the two A.P. classes. They had these archaic rules: for example, girls couldn't wear makeup. I found it so outrageous that an all-boys school could tell girls to not wear makeup! So I went on a campaign. I got a petition signed and everything. If a girl wants to wear makeup to boost confidence, why not?

    Girl   School   Makeup  
    Source: www.glamour.com
  • What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.

    Fashion   Art   Becoming  
  • On a very practical level, I've learned the importance of circulation socks for planes. I had this awful experience of getting off a flight to go to an event and my feet had swelled. Try getting into heels then! So you put on the socks for the flight, then you can wear whatever heels you want.

    Source: www.glamour.com
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