Best quotes by Lupita Nyong'o on Myself
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‟ 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.
- Lupita Nyong'o
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‟ 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
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‟ Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved for images of myself. I'd grown up watching a lot of American TV. There was very little Kenyan material, because we had an autocratic ruler who stifled our creative expression.
- Lupita Nyong'o
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‟ I thought I was going to school to be other people, but really, what I learned was to be myself - accepting myself, my strengths and weaknesses.
- Lupita Nyong'o
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‟ I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that's how I check how I'm doing. It can be something simple like 'listen,' or 'find your feet.' And then afterward it's an assessment, so in a way it's not about booking the job or not. It's about what I learned as an actor about that character.
- Lupita Nyong'o