Quotes by Lupita Nyong'o

You cant rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and for those around you.

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.

Its only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, youre not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

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

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico.

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

Its so funny, you go to acting school thinking youre going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because its in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another persons circumstances and another persons experience.