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
badass women risk
You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.
impossible
You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.
beautiful compassion compassion-for-yourself
What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.
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.
dream people born
I feel privileged that people are looking up to me and perhaps a dream will be born because of my presence,
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.
starting-over actors experts
As actors, you become an expert at starting over.
ostriches sand feels
I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.
compassion-for-yourself
You can’t eat beauty. It doesn’t feed you.
perfection joy
Seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.
pain joy thanks
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.
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.
beautiful makeup skins
I've worked hard to feel beautiful in my natural skin. Personally, I don't ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful.
instinct humans human-beings
Human beings have an instinct for freedom.