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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 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" Before the advent of the white man, black people were doing all kinds of things with their hair. The rejection of kinks and curls did come with the white man. "

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" 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. "

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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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" As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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" I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but the first time I thought it was something that I could make a career of was when I watched 'The Color Purple.' I think I was nine, maybe, and I saw people that looked like me - Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah. "

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" I'm a crybaby. "

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" I loved make-believe. I was the child in the cupboard playing with my Barbies. "

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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. "

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" Home is where my family is. "

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" I haven't always been gluten-free. "

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" I am very emotional about politics in a way that makes it hard for me to articulate things in a rational fashion. "

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" What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture. "

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

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" Being a part of '12 Years a Slave' has been one of the most profound experiences of my life. "

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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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" We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty. "

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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. "

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

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

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