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" I didn't love my hair when I was a child. It was lighter than my skin, which made me not love it so much. I was really kind of envious of girls with thicker, longer, more lush hair. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both. "

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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. "

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" It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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" I always love to learn new things. That's the reason I like being an actor. "

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" Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius. "

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" Human beings have an instinct for freedom. "

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" 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. "

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" To this day, I love eating steak tacos before going to the red carpets. "

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" I'm a crybaby. "

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" I grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. 'The Color Purple' was the first time I saw people who looked like me. "

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" Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands. "

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" I hope we can form a community where a woman can speak up about abuse and not suffer another abuse by not being believed and instead being ridiculed. "

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" 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. "

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