31 quotes found
Actress · 1983
Actress (born 1983)
“Don’t sweat the small stuff.”
“No more suffering in silence.”
“I was dismissed, confused, and alone.”
“It’s such a no-brainer to be able to use this platform.”
“My default is not to feel unwelcome. My default is to seek welcome.”
“We need better education, early diagnosis, and improved treatments.”
“You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and for those around you.”
“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.”
“I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is not bedazzled.”
“My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico.”
“I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.”
“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 le...”
“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.”
“There was so much joy in the making of this film, despite the fact that it’s about such a sad, traumatic experience…We all felt like we were part of something so real and so necessary. It was a joy...”
“I was completely overwhelmed…The body registers stress, whether good or bad, in the same way. So if it’s super exciting or super traumatising, your body is in equal distress. Though I would choose ...”
“It's because of the prevalence of whiteness, Eurocentric standards of beauty that we experience this. You know? And it is subconscious. Colorism is the daughter of racism. But sometimes it seems li...”
“I find a lot of gratitude in my first years on this planet because having to identify - or having to not rely on how I look like to seduce or to get by in life really meant that I had to cultivate ...”
“Hunger is a defining issue for our world and climate change is worsening the problem. We must work to change this dynamic.”
“Women’s issues are human issues. Hunger is a human issue and therefore hunger is a women’s issue.”
“There are tons of Black women completely capable and are darn good at that,”
“To me it felt like a question about our value system in this culture, the ways we define success for ourselves as well as others,”
“...I turned down a few projects to pursue this one. I knew there was a sense of what was expected of me, but this play felt so important to me that I had to do it, expectations be damned.”
“As an African woman, I am wary of the trap of telling a single story… the chance to appear in Eclipsed after winning an Oscar was an opportunity to share in the incredible (and too rare) freedom of...”
“It was so nice to have someone embrace that and encourage it, because I never knew that I would start my career and that would be called for. So, it was just really lovely to bring my full self to ...”
