Lupita Nyong'o
Lupita Nyong'o
Lupita Amondi Nyong'o; born March 1, 1983) is a Mexi-Kenyan actress and filmmaker. She was born in Mexico to Kenyan parents and raised in Kenya. She attended college in the United States, earning a bachelor's degree in film and theater studies from Hampshire College...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth1 March 1983
CityMexico City, Mexico
CountryMexico
perfection joy
Seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.
compassion-for-yourself
You can’t eat beauty. It doesn’t feed you.
artist honest being-an-artist
Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It keeps us honest.
beautiful validation shade
That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shade to that beauty.
black shame black-beauty
There is no shame in black beauty,
war fighting past
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.
real men thinking
I think it's a real gift to be faced with man's potential for extreme cruelty but also man's resilience and the fact that love really does conquer everything. It's the only answer to these kinds of atrocities and it's not a passive thing.
successful college actors
When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor. I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did.
beautiful compassion compassion-for-yourself
What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.
impossible
You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.
pain joy feelings
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-realized acquire
I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.
badass women risk
You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.
ive-learned enough good-enough
What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.