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

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.

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

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In the madness, you have to find calm.

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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.

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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 had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?'

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It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

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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.

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I haven't always been gluten-free.

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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.

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

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I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

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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.

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

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Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.'

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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 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.

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I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When you're describing someone, you don't start out with 'he's black, he's white.'

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Human beings have an instinct for freedom.

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Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It... keeps us honest.

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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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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.

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I want to be uncomfortable - acting is uncomfortable.

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

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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.'

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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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