Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

The thing is that when you make a film, it is such an intense experience. It's like being married.

You give a hundred percent of yourself to a film and then move on.

I like to see things that take a lot of time and effort and passion. Which I feel like 'Skins' has.

Actors can make five movies a year. A director can make one movie, every two years. It's a whole different level of commitment and of sweat equity, and therefore there's a direct correlation to passion.

I take my life and put it on the football field, and I take the football field and put it in my life.

When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together.

I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here.

A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.

A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.

Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive.

Working with the cast of 'Glee' was inspiring. To be around a group of kids who work so hard and love what they do is so refreshing.

Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

I realized that acting was something I wasn't going to be lazy about. You feel good when you do it well. It is something that can grow in you.

Acting and the industry of making movies is beautiful, but it's so exhausting and such hard work; if you don't absolutely 100% want to do something, it defeats the purpose.

The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.

When you work with people who are so passionate about their product it's kinda inspiring.

I've always considered myself a workaholic... The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down and hang myself by my ankles and wring myself out like a wet sweater, and I have to do that with other people, too, because I think that's where something good comes out.

I've discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common - a family of wonderfully talented, passionate, hardworking young people, fiercely competitive but also full of love and appreciation for the work, for each other and for the people in the audience.

When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

I feel that when people hire me they know it's going to be a collaboration and that they hire me for what I give on all sorts of levels, from my movement to the emotion I bring to the project, the passion, all of it.