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" All throughout filming '12 Years a Slave,' there was a focus like no other. Everyone took ownership of this film and gave their all. "

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" The first time I cut all my hair off was when I was 19. I just got fed up going to the salon every week. I'd had enough! On a whim, it was off. It's low-maintenance. "

" I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during the third year he was there. And when I was 16, I returned to Mexico to learn Spanish. "

" Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life. "

" I don't need to be so full of myself that I feel I am without flaw. I can feel beautiful and imperfect at the same time. I have a healthy relationship with my aesthetic insecurities. "

" I learned at Yale, one of the biggest lessons was to learn how special I am and therefore how totally unspecial I am. I was special among everyone else who was special. The fact that we're all so individual and that's what makes us special. "

" Drama is my sweet spot, but the thing about being an actor is that you want to do a variety of things. I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project. "

" The muscles you flex in theater are muscles that you really need. I must always find a way to get back there. It's irreplaceable. "

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

" I was part of a growing community of women who were secretly dealing with harassment by Harvey Weinstein. But I also did not know that there was a world in which anybody would care about my experience with him. "

" My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know who he played, but it wasn't Othello. He would talk about it, though, and read Shakespeare to me. "

" In the madness, you have to find calm. "

" My immediate family was always very supportive. It was my own fear of the rest of the world not accepting me, the rest of our society not accepting my wish to be an actor. "

" I can speak of actors that I love. I love Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, her tenacity. I love Charlize Theron. She's so surprising and so exhilarating, the kinds of projects she takes on. Marion Cotillard as well. "

" I want to be uncomfortable - acting is uncomfortable. "

" There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh. "

" 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. "

" I grew up in Nairobi, which is the capital of Kenya, so it's hustle and bustle, and there's always something going on. "

" I went to an all-boys high school, and they accepted girls in only the two A.P. classes. "

" I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile. "

" I have dabbled in martial arts all my life, since I was 7, maybe - tae kwon do, capoeira, Muay Thai. It's always been an interest because in martial arts there is a mind/body relationship. "

" 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. "

" I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport. "

" I'm pretty awesome at making salad dressings. "

" I feel privileged that people are looking up to me, and perhaps a dream will be born because of my presence. "

" I'm interested in generating work for myself. I have trouble with this waiting-for-the-phone-to-ring lifestyle, especially after drama school, which was so creatively fulfilling. "

" What fame does is there is an illusion of familiarity that is cast into the world. So it's about negotiating with that illusion because, oftentimes, you encounter people who have encountered you, but you haven't encountered them. It's a little weird to find your footing. "

" My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day. "

" I value not being good at things, because children are not good at things. "

" I'm a crybaby. "

" I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that. "