Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

“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 to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.”

“I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.”

“I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is not bedazzled.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and for those around you.”

“Lupita thought that people who didn’t dance were selfish and lonely.”

“You can’t eat beauty, it doesn't feed you...beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be. You can’t rely on how you look to sustain you. What actually sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful, is compassion--for yourself and for those around you. That kind of beauty inflames the heart and enchants the soul.”

“Se tudo o resto não me basta por que hei-de impedir o efeito paliativo das benzodiazepinas e a volúpia desta evocação alucinatória?If everything else is not enough for me why should I stop the palliative effect of benzodiazepines and the lust of this hallucinatory evocation?”

“O temporal O mores! O what times! what morals!”