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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 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. "

Lupita Nyong'o

" 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. "

Lupita Nyong'o

" 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. "

Lupita Nyong'o

" Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life. "

Lupita Nyong'o

" 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. "

Lupita Nyong'o

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

Lupita Nyong'o

" 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.' "

Lupita Nyong'o

" I'm Mexican and Kenyan at the same time. I've seen the quarrels over my nationality, but I'm Kenyan and Mexican at the same time. So again, I am Mexican-Kenyan, and I am fascinated by carne asada tacos. "

Lupita Nyong'o

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

Lupita Nyong'o

" 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. "

Lupita Nyong'o

" The set of '12 Years a Slave' was an extremely joyous one! We all recognized that we were making a powerful, necessary and beautiful film, and we weren't about doing it without that sense of responsibility, and we recognized that we needed each other to tell this story. We also knew we needed to hold each other up as we told the story. "

Lupita Nyong'o

" I'm pretty awesome at making salad dressings. "

Lupita Nyong'o

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

Lupita Nyong'o

" 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.' "

Lupita Nyong'o

" 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. "

Lupita Nyong'o

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

Lupita Nyong'o

" 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. "

Lupita Nyong'o

" 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. "

Lupita Nyong'o

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

Lupita Nyong'o

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

Lupita Nyong'o

" Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still experience it because we're a part of the African race. If it happened to one, it happened to all. We carry that burden. "

Lupita Nyong'o

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

Lupita Nyong'o

" 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. "

Lupita Nyong'o

" I can speak of actors that I love. I love Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, her tenacity. I love Charlize Theron. She's so surprising and so exhilarating, the kinds of projects she takes on. Marion Cotillard as well. "

Lupita Nyong'o

" 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. "

Lupita Nyong'o

" 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. "

Lupita Nyong'o

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

Lupita Nyong'o

" 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. "

Lupita Nyong'o

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

Lupita Nyong'o

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

Lupita Nyong'o