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" 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. "

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" I am thrilled beyond words that The Academy has recognized my performance in Steve McQueen's '12 Years a Slave,' and I am deeply proud to be in the company of my fellow nominees. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I thought I was going to school to be other people, but really, what I learned was to be myself - accepting myself, my strengths and weaknesses. "

" I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form... But I never want it to take over my acting. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" That's such a powerless place for me to think about: what is working against me. I don't think of what I don't have; I think of what I do and use that to get the next thing. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Home is where my family is. "

" 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. "

" My conscious life has all been in Kenya, and it's my point of reference. But going back to Mexico was very formative. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Human beings have an instinct for freedom. "