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" I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project. "

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" The Hollywood Film Awards were really stressful. It was the biggest press line I'd ever seen. "

" One of the reasons why I went to the Yale School of Drama is because I felt that I was acting off of instinct, but sometimes that is not reliable. When you're not feeling it, what do you do? So, going to grad school was about getting the tools to just use my instrument to the best of my ability. "

" I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?' "

" 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. "

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

" It's great to have something to dress up for. You know, I spent three years in slacks at drama school, so now I like putting a dress on. "

" There have been rumors and rumors and rumors about my love life. That's the one area that I really like to hold close to my heart. "

" I come from a very close class. I lucked out because drama schools are often very competitive... I have fourteen classmates. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I got teased and taunted about my night-shaded skin, and my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned. The morning would come, and I would be so excited about seeing my new skin that I would refuse to look down at myself until I was in front of a mirror because I wanted to see my fair face first. "

" Every single laundromat, grocery store, everything is called 'Lupita' in Mexico. "

" I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure. "

" I don't ever want to be president - let's just get that out of the way. "

" My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell this story about what school I went to and what uniform I wore and who I talked to at lunchtime and what I ate, and my mother was like, 'This girl does not even go to school.' "

" The beauty standards had nothing to do with me in Mexico. It was such a bizarre, dire time for my hair. I was living in a small town where there was not any semblance of an African community. I'd have to take the bus to Mexico City to find a woman who could braid my hair. That was two and a half hours away. "

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

" 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. "

" There is something about acting that's mysterious and magical because there is only so much I can do to prepare, and then I have to just let go and breathe and believe that it will come through. "

" When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor. "

" I'm still trying to get over the fact that my name is being mentioned with people like Brad Pitt. "

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

" I'm Mexican and Kenyan at the same time. I've seen the quarrels over my nationality, but I'm Kenyan and Mexican at the same time. So again, I am Mexican-Kenyan, and I am fascinated by carne asada tacos. "

" 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. "

" As actors, you become an expert at starting over. "

" Ralph Fiennes was a pivotal influence on me. He asked me, 'So what is it you want to do?' I very shyly, timidly admitted that I wanted to be an actor. He sighed, and he said, 'Lupita, only be an actor if you feel there is nothing else in the world you want to do - only do it if you feel you cannot live without acting.' "

" Dreams are the foundation of Hollywood. And dreams are the foundation of America. "

" 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. "