Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

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

" 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. "

" Our business is complicated because intimacy is part and parcel of our profession; as actors, we are paid to do very intimate things in public. That's why someone can have the audacity to invite you to their home or hotel, and you show up. "

" Personally, I don't ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" I never understood who all those people are behind the actors! When you see them on the red carpet on TV, you go, 'Why does that person need such a large entourage?' And then you realize that every single person there has a role to play. "

" Home is where my family is. "

" 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. "

" I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying, We don't have work for black women.' "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art. "

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

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

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

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