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

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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. "

" 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. "

" I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination. "

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

" Growing up, I had really bad skin. I had a skin disorder. Yes, I did. And my mother went to great lengths to try to find something to remedy it. I remember she took a trip to Madagascar and came back with all these alternative, medicinal herbs and stuff. They didn't smell so good, but I think they worked some magic. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Home is where my family is. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Being considered a fashion star is wonderful. It's definitely a bonus thing. "

" I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it. "